Marx and the earth : an anti-critique / by John Bellamy Foster, Paul Burkett ; with the editorial assistance of Ryan Wishart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, John Bellamy, author.

Burkett, Paul, 1956 May 26- author.

Series:

Historical materialism book series ; 115.

Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 115

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism and ecology.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Physical Description:

x, 316 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Contents:

Introduction 1

Three Stages of Ecosocialist Analysis 1

The Debate on Marx and Ecology a Decade and a Half Later 12

Marx's 'Major Ecological Flaw': The Tanuro Thesis 15

Marx and the Foreshortening of Intrinsic Value: The Kovel Thesis 34

Marx, Aesthetics, and the Sensuous Value of Nature 50

1 The Dialectic of Organic and Inorganic Relations 57

The Critique of 'Marx's Inorganic Body' 58

The Organic/Inorganic Distinction and Hegel's Philosophy of Nature 65

Marx's Dialectic of Organic/Inorganic: The Conditions of Human Existence 70

The Ecological Transformation of Marx's Nature-Dialectic 78

Instrumentalism and Teleology: Contradictions in the Ecological Critique of Marx 83

Toward Ecological Materialism 88

2 The Origins of Ecological Economics: Podolinsky and Marx-Engels 89

Podolinsky: Life and Work 93

Development of Podolinsky's Project 99

Accumulation of Energy on Earth 102

Problems with the Quantitative Energy Accumulation Approach 103

Podolinsky's Analysis as a Basis for Value Theory 106

Value and Nature: Marx and Sieber versus Podolinsky 107

Podolinsky's Perfect Machine Argument 110

Shortcomings of the Perfect Machine Perspective 113

Marx's Notes on Podolinsky 117

Engels's Comments on Podolinsky 122

Elaborations in Die Neue Zeit 131

Stoffwechsel 134

3 Classical Marxism and Energetics 137

Introduction 137

Labour Power and its Value 139

Energy and Surplus Value 144

Capitalist Industrialisation and Thermodynamics in Marx's Capital 150

Entropy and the Metabolic Rift 160

4 Engels, Entropy, and the Heat Death Hypothesis 165

Introduction 165

The Second Law and the Heat Death of the Universe 170

The Heat Death Hypothesis and Nineteenth-Century Physics 186

Marxism, the Entropy Law, and Ecology 197

Conclusion: The Dialectics of Nature and Society and the Second Law 199

5 The Reproduction of Economy and Society 204

Introduction 204

Ecological Economists on Marx's Reproduction Schemes 205

Production and Circular Flows in the tableau économique 206

Marx on the tableau économique 209

Production, Nature and Monetary Flows in Marx's Schemes 211

The Analytical Background for Marx's Schemes 214

The Reproduction Schemes and Environmental Crises 218

Conclusion 221

Conclusion: Marx and Metabolic Restoration 222

Marx's Ecology alter Marx (and after Engels) 224

Marx, Metabolism, and Open-System Economics 232

Against Energeticism 236

Metabolic Restoration: Toward Sustainable Human Development 239.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Foster, John Bellamy, author. Marx and the earth

ISBN:

9789004229242

9004229248

OCLC:

921864095