Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology, and Dialectics by Cassegård, Carl
Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology, and Dialectics by Cassegård, Carl

Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology, and Dialectics

Challenging the normalization of a capitalist reality in which environmental destruction and catastrophe have become 'second nature',...
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Author: Carl Cassegård
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Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology, and Dialectics by Cassegård, Carl

Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology, and Dialectics

$150.80
Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology, and Dialectics by Cassegård, Carl

Toward a Critical Theory of Nature: Capital, Ecology, and Dialectics

$150.80
Author: Carl Cassegård
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Challenging the normalization of a capitalist reality in which environmental destruction and catastrophe have become 'second nature', Towards a Critical Theory of Nature 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, to situate it as the only approach with genuinely radical potential. The possibility of utopian idealism for understanding and responding to the current climate crisis is carefully measured against the dangers of false hope in setting out realistic goals for change. Environmental change in turn is seen through the prism of recent cultural currents and movements, situating the power of a critical theory of nature in relation to understandings of the Anthropocene; concepts of apocalypse, and postapocalypse. This book culminates in a powerful tool for an anti-capitalist critique of society's painfully extractive relationship to a deceptively abstracted natural world.

Author: Carl Cassegård
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 08/25/2022
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781350213999

About the Author
Cassegård, Carl: - Carl Cassegård is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where he is currently researching environmental activism. He is the author of Youth Movements, Trauma and Alternative Space in Contemporary Japan (2014) and Shock and Naturalization (2007). He has co-edited Climate Action in a Globalizing World (2017) and written numerous articles on critical theory.O'Kane, Chris: - Chris O'Kane is Lecturer of Political Philosophy at the City University of New York, USA.Bonefeld, Werner: -

Werner Bonefeld teaches in the Department of Politics at the University of York, UK. Before coming to York he taught at the Universities of Frankfurt and Edinburgh. He has conducted post-graduate seminars on critical theory at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, adn at Universidad de Buenos Aires (2008). His work contributed to the development of the internationally recognised Open Marxism school.

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