Marx and the Earth : An Anti-Critique.
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TextSeries: Historical Materialism Book SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (326 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789004288799
- 306.3/45
- HX550.E25 .F678 2016
Intro -- 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.
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.
In Marx and the Earth John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett respond to recent ecosocialist criticisms of Marx, offering a full-fledged anti-critique. They thus extend their earlier pioneering work on Marx's ecology, providing the basis for a new red-green synthesis.
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