Marx and Nature

A Red and Green Perspective
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-1-349-41490-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

With Marx and Nature, Paul Burkett reconstructs Marx's approach to nature, society, and environmental crisis. While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx also insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions, including the natural condition of human bodily existence. Marx's value analysis places him squarely in the camp of the growing number of ecological theorists questioning the ability of monetary and market-based calculations to adequately represent the natural conditions of human production and development.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burkett, P.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: NATURE AND HISTORICAL MATERIALISM Requirements of a Social Ecology Nature, Labor, and Production The Natural Bias of Labor Productivity and Surplus Labor Labor and Labor Power as Natural and Social Forces PART II: NATURE AND CAPITALISM Nature, Labor, and Capitalist Production Capital's 'Free Appropriation' of Natural and Social Conditions Capitalism and Nature: A Value-form Approach Reconsidering Some Ecological Criticisms of Marx's Value Analysis Capitalism and Environmental Crisis Marx's Working-day Analysis and Environmental Crisis Nature and Communism Nature and the Historical Progressivity of Capitalism Nature and Capitalism's Historical Limits Capital, Nature, and Class Struggle Nature and Associated Production PART IV: TWO CRITIQUES Reassessing Schmidt's Concept of Nature in Marx A Critique of Neo-Malthusian Marxism, Part I: Society, Nature, and Population A Critique of Neo-Malthusian Marxism, Part II: Labor, Nature and Capital

Über Autor(innen)

PAUL BURKETT teaches economics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, USA.