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The distortion of nature's image : reification and the ecological crisis / Damian Gerber.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gerber, Damian, 1988- author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in new political science.
- SUNY series in new political science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Global environmental change--Social aspects.
- Global environmental change.
- Human ecology.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Nature.
- Social ecology.
- Capitalism--Environmental aspects.
- Capitalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- The global ecological crisis is upon us. From global warming to the long-term implications of ocean acidification, air and water pollution, deforestation, and the omnipresent dangers of nuclear technology the future of our planetary home is threatened. Yet in the midst of the unfolding crisis, the conventional ideologies of the twentieth century and their representations of nature remain unchallenged by both the defenders of capitalism and capitalism's most radical critics. The Distortion of Nature's Image illustrates how the anti-naturalism of late capitalist society, in which nature is reified into the emptiness of mere matter, simply a thing to be dominated, is subtly complemented by the failure of the Left to go both beyond the historic limitations of Marx's ninteenth-century viewpoint and beyond anarchism's blind faith in "natural law." However, an alternative for comprehending nature and the ecological crisis as historical and social phenomena remains open in the dialectical naturalism of Western Marxism and Murray Bookchin's social ecology. By examining in closer detail how Bookchin's social ecology politicizes the concept of nature, as well as how precursory models in Western Marxist thought provide a foundation for this, Damian Gerber illustrates how the notion of an ecological society remains a decisively political question.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438473567
- 1438473567
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