TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - Toward a critical theory of nature : capital, ecology, and dialectics T2 - Critical theory and the critique of society series A1 - Cassegård, Carl, kirjoittaja LA - eng PP - London, UK ; New York, NY PB - Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc YR - 2021 UL - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5496932 AB - "This book offers a bold new theoretical understanding of the current ecological crisis via 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 Marxist concepts to confirm humanity's centrality in manufacturing environmental misery. Pre-eminent thinkers including Georg Lukács, Ernst Bloch, and Theodor Adorno 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"-- SN - 9781350159501 kovakantinen SN - 9781350213999 pehmeäkantinen KW - Environmentalism : Philosophy. KW - Critical theory. KW - Critical theory KW - Environmentalism : Philosophy ER -