Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature

@book{citeulike:2783286, abstract = {{<p>Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis.</p> <p>Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human relationship to nature.</p> <p><b>Marx's Ecology </b>covers many other thinkers, including Epicurus, Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus, Ludwig Feuerbach, P. J. Proudhon, and William Paley.</p> <p>By reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society, <b>Marx's Ecology </b>challenges the spiritualism prevalent in the modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more lasting and sustainable solutions to the ecological crisis.</p>}}, author = {Foster, John B. }, citeulike-article-id = {2783286}, howpublished = {Paperback}, isbn = {1583670122}, keywords = {ecology, marxism}, month = {March}, posted-at = {2008-05-10 21:44:41}, priority = {2}, publisher = {{Monthly Review Press}}, title = {Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature}, url = {http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20\&amp;path=ASIN/1583670122}, year = {2000} }

TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:2783286 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2783286 TI - Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature PB - {Monthly Review Press} SN - 1583670122 N2 - {<p>Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis.</p> <p>Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human relationship to nature.</p> <p><b>Marx's Ecology </b>covers many other thinkers, including Epicurus, Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus, Ludwig Feuerbach, P. J. Proudhon, and William Paley.</p> <p>By reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society, <b>Marx's Ecology </b>challenges the spiritualism prevalent in the modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more lasting and sustainable solutions to the ecological crisis.</p>} KW - ecology KW - marxism AU - Foster, John PY - 2000/03/01/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/1583670122 ER -