ISBN:
9789004288799
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9004288791
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 316 pages)
Series Statement:
Historical materialism book series 1570-1522 volume 115
Series Statement:
Historical materialism book series volume 115
Parallel Title:
Print version Foster, John Bellamy, author Marx and the earth
DDC:
306.345
Keywords:
Marx, Karl 1818-1883 Marx, Karl 1818-1883
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Marx, Karl
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Marx, Karl
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Marx, Karl
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Communism and ecology
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Communism and ecology
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Communism and ecology
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A decade and a half ago John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett introduced a new, revolutionary understanding of the ecological foundations of Marx's thought, demonstrating that Marx's concepts of the universal metabolism of nature, social metabolism, and metabolic rift prefigured much of modern systems ecology. Ecological relations were shown to be central to Marx's critique of capitalism, including his value analysis. Now in Marx and the Earth Foster and Burkett expand on this analysis in the process of responding to recent ecosocialist criticisms of Marx. The result is a full-fledged anti-critique --pointing to the crucial roles that dialectics, open-system thermodynamics, intrinsic value, and aesthetic understandings played in the original Marxian critique, holding out the possibility of a new red-green synthesis
Abstract:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Three Stages of Ecosocialist Analysis -- The Debate on Marx and Ecology a Decade and a Half Later -- Marx's 'Major Ecological Flaw': The Tanuro Thesis -- Marx and the Foreshortening of Intrinsic Value: The Kovel Thesis -- Marx, Aesthetics, and the Sensuous Value of Nature -- Chapter 1. The Dialectic of Organic and Inorganic Relations -- The Critique of 'Marx's Inorganic Body' -- The Organic/Inorganic Distinction and Hegel's Philosophy of Nature -- Marx's Dialectic of Organic/Inorganic: The Conditions of Human Existence -- The Ecological Transformation of Marx's Nature-Dialectic -- Instrumentalism and Teleology: Contradictions in the Ecological Critique of Marx -- Toward Ecological Materialism -- Chapter 2. The Origins of Ecological Economics: Podolinsky and Marx-Engels -- Podolinsky: Life and Work -- Development of Podolinsky's Project -- Accumulation of Energy on Earth -- Problems with the Quantitative Energy Accumulation Approach -- Podolinsky's Analysis as a Basis for Value Theory -- Value and Nature: Marx and Sieber versus Podolinsky -- Podolinsky's Perfect Machine Argument -- Shortcomings of the Perfect Machine Perspective -- Marx's Notes on Podolinsky -- Engels's Comments on Podolinsky -- Elaborations in Die Neue Zeit -- Stoffwechsel -- Chapter 3. Classical Marxism and Energetics -- Introduction -- Labour Power and its Value -- Energy and Surplus Value -- Capitalist Industrialisation and Thermodynamics in Marx's Capital -- Entropy and the Metabolic Rift -- Chapter 4. Engels, Entropy, and the Heat Death Hypothesis -- Introduction -- The Second Law and the Heat Death of the Universe -- The Heat Death Hypothesis and Nineteenth-Century Physics -- Marxism, the Entropy Law, and Ecology -- Conclusion: The Dialectics of Nature and Society and the Second Law.
Abstract:
Chapter 5. The Reproduction of Economy and Society -- Introduction -- Ecological Economists on Marx's Reproduction Schemes -- Production and Circular Flows in the tableau économique -- Marx on the tableau économique -- Production, Nature and Monetary Flows in Marx's Schemes -- The Analytical Background for Marx's Schemes -- The Reproduction Schemes and Environmental Crises -- Conclusion -- Conclusion. Marx and Metabolic Restoration -- Marx's Ecology after Marx (and after Engels) -- Marx, Metabolism, and Open-System Economics -- Against Energeticism -- Metabolic Restoration: Toward Sustainable Human Development -- Appendix 1. Socialism and the Unity of Physical Forces (Podolinsky) -- Appendix 2. Human Labour and the Unity of Force (Podolinsky) -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 10, 2016)
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