Toward a Critical Theory of Nature

Capital, Ecology, and Dialectics

Bibliographic Data

ID19936367
AuthorsCarl Cassegard (0000-0003-4358-0271, corresponding author)
Year2021
Publication date2021-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueToward a Critical Theory of Nature (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781350176287
OpenAlexW4250587595
Open LibraryOL34755587M
ISBN9781350176287
LanguageEN
Citations received19

Challenging the normalization of a capitalist reality in which environmental destruction and catastrophe have become ‘second nature’, Ecology and Dialectics, offers a bold new theoretical understanding of the current crisis via the work of the Frankfurt School. Focusing on key notions of dialectics, natural history, and materialism, a critical theory of nature is outlined in favor of a more traditional Marxist theory of nature, albeit one which still builds on core Marxist concepts to confirm humanity’s central place in manufacturing environmental misery. Pre-eminent thinkers of the Frankfurt school, including, Georg Lukács, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, and Alfred Schmidt, are highlighted for their potential to diagnose the interpenetration of capitalism and nature in a way that neither absolutizes nor obliterates the boundary between the social and natural. Further theoretical claims and practical consequences of a critical theory of nature challenge other contemporary theoretical approaches like eco-Marxism, social constructivism and new materialism

Capitalism · Critical theory · Dialectic · Dialectical materialism · Ecological crisis · Environmental crisis · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Historical materialism · Humanity · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Natural (archaeology) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Environmental sciences · Environmentalism · Social & political philosophy

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