Marx and the earth : an anti-critique /
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 mod...
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2016
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Series: | Historical materialism book series ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.