| Description |
1 online resource (x, 316 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Historical materialism book series,
1570-1522 ;
volume 115
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Historical materialism book series ; 115.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Three Stages of Ecosocialist Analysis -- The Debate on Marx and Ecology a Decade and a Half Later -- Marx's 'Major Ecological Flaw': The Tanuro Thesis -- Marx and the Foreshortening of Intrinsic Value: The Kovel Thesis -- Marx, Aesthetics, and the Sensuous Value of Nature -- Chapter 1. The Dialectic of Organic and Inorganic Relations -- The Critique of 'Marx's Inorganic Body' -- The Organic/Inorganic Distinction and Hegel's Philosophy of Nature -- Marx's Dialectic of Organic/Inorganic: The Conditions of Human Existence -- The Ecological Transformation of Marx's Nature-Dialectic -- Instrumentalism and Teleology: Contradictions in the Ecological Critique of Marx -- Toward Ecological Materialism -- Chapter 2. The Origins of Ecological Economics: Podolinsky and Marx-Engels -- Podolinsky: Life and Work -- Development of Podolinsky's Project -- Accumulation of Energy on Earth -- Problems with the Quantitative Energy Accumulation Approach -- Podolinsky's Analysis as a Basis for Value Theory -- Value and Nature: Marx and Sieber versus Podolinsky -- Podolinsky's Perfect Machine Argument -- Shortcomings of the Perfect Machine Perspective -- Marx's Notes on Podolinsky -- Engels's Comments on Podolinsky -- Elaborations in Die Neue Zeit -- Stoffwechsel -- Chapter 3. Classical Marxism and Energetics -- Introduction -- Labour Power and its Value -- Energy and Surplus Value -- Capitalist Industrialisation and Thermodynamics in Marx's Capital -- Entropy and the Metabolic Rift -- Chapter 4. Engels, Entropy, and the Heat Death Hypothesis -- Introduction -- The Second Law and the Heat Death of the Universe -- The Heat Death Hypothesis and Nineteenth-Century Physics -- Marxism, the Entropy Law, and Ecology -- Conclusion: The Dialectics of Nature and Society and the Second Law. |
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Chapter 5. The Reproduction of Economy and Society -- Introduction -- Ecological Economists on Marx's Reproduction Schemes -- Production and Circular Flows in the tableau économique -- Marx on the tableau économique -- Production, Nature and Monetary Flows in Marx's Schemes -- The Analytical Background for Marx's Schemes -- The Reproduction Schemes and Environmental Crises -- Conclusion -- Conclusion. Marx and Metabolic Restoration -- Marx's Ecology after Marx (and after Engels) -- Marx, Metabolism, and Open-System Economics -- Against Energeticism -- Metabolic Restoration: Toward Sustainable Human Development -- Appendix 1. Socialism and the Unity of Physical Forces (Podolinsky) -- Appendix 2. Human Labour and the Unity of Force (Podolinsky) -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
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Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. |
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Communism and ecology.
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Communism and ecology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Burkett, Paul, 1956 May 26- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Foster, John Bellamy. Marx and the earth. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004229242 (DLC) 2015041827 |
| ISBN |
9789004288799 (electronic book) |
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9004288791 (electronic book) |
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9789004229242 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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