Critical ecologies : the Frankfurt School and contemporary environmental crises / edited by Andrew Biro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biro, Andrew, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human ecology--Philosophy.

Human ecology.

Social ecology.

Ecology--Philosophy.

Ecology.

Critical theory.

Physical Description:

viii, 366 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2011]

Summary:

"Environmental movements are the subject of increasingly rigorous political theoretical study. Can the Frankfurt School's critical frameworks be used to address ecological issues, or do environmental conflicts remain part of the "failed promise" of this group? Critical Ecologies aims to redeem the theories of major Frankfurt thinkers--Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse, among others--by applying them to contemporary environmental crises.

Critical Ecologies argues that sustainability and critical social theory have many similar goals, including resistance to different forms of domination. Like the Frankfurt School itself, the essays in this volume reflect a spirit of interdisciplinarity and draw attention to intersections between environmental, socio-political, and philosophical issues. Offering textual analyses by leading scholars in both critical theory and environmental politics, Critical Ecologies underscores the continued relevance of the Frankfurt School's ideas for addressing contemporary issues."--pub. desc.

Contents:

PART ONE: Science and the Mastery of Nature

Modern Science, Enlightenment, and the Domination of Nature: No Exit? / William Leiss

Societal Relations with Nature: A Dialectical Approach to Environmental Politics / Christopher Görg

The Politics of Science: Has Marcuse's New Science Finally Come of Age? / Katharine N Farrell

PART TWO: Critical Theory, Life, and Nature

Sacred Identity and the Sacrificial Spirit: Mimesis and Radical Ecology / Bruce Martin

From 'Unity of Life' to the Critique of Domination: Jonas, Freud, and Marcuse [Sigmund Freud, Hans Jonas, Herbert Marcuse] / Colin Campbell

PART THREE: Alienation and the Aesthetic

Adorno's Aesthetic Rationality: On the Dialect of Natural and Artistic Beauty [Theodor Adorno] / Donald D Burke

On Nature and Alienation by Steven Vogel

Fear and the Unknown: Nature, Culture, and the Limits of Reason / Shane Gunster

Ecological Crisis and the Culture Industry Thesis / Andrew Biro

PART FOUR: Critical Theory's Moment

Natural History, Sovereign Power, and Global Warming / Jonathan Short

Adorno's Historical and Temporal Consciousness: Towards a Critical Theoretical Environmental Imagination / Michael Lipscomb

Toward a Critique of Posthuman Reason: Revisiting 'Nature' and 'Humanity' in Horkheimer's 'The Concept of Man' [Max Horkheimer] / Timothy W Luke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0802095658

9780802098405

0802098401

9780802095657

OCLC:

681501209

Publisher Number:

99954440260