This thought-provoking study argues that Marx's study of Charles Darwin led him to develop a distinctively Marxian concept of natural history that provides crucial direction for promoting an eco-socialist alternative to capitalism. An incisive work that is likely to spur lively discussion and debate.

- Peter Hudis, author of <i>Franta Fanon: Philosopher of Barricades</i>,

<i>The End</i> puts us in the middle of a fascinating conversation between Marx and Darwin that most of us hardly knew was going on. Joel Wainwright elaborates a creative and fertile relationship that reveals a fuller, natural-historical Marx--an engagement that shines a surprising, insightful and powerful new light on the present.

- Geoff Mann, co-author of <i>Climate Leviathan</i>,

In this pathbreaking study, Joel Wainwright shows how deeply Darwin influenced Capital. Marx's thinking about history and nature changed, generating a distinctive ecological critique of capitalism as a social formation. Marx even called Capital a study of natural history.
Les mer
How Marx provides new insights into our environmental crisis when read alongside Darwin
PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF MARXIAN NATURAL HISTORY
1. Marx before Darwin
2. Darwin and the destruction of teleology
3. Marx after Darwin

PART II: READING CAPITAL AS NATURAL HISTORY
4. Labor, nature, and technology
5. From population to commodity fetishism

PART III: ELABORATIONS OF MARXIAN NATURAL HISTORY
6. A natural history of capitalism
7. Philosophical implications of Marxian natural history
8. Prospect of an end
Les mer
How Marx provides new insights into our environmental crisis when read alongside Darwin
For readers of Andreas Malm, Kohei Saito and David Harvey,Endorsements from Brett Christophers, David Harvey, Andreas Malm, Kohei Saito and Slavoj Žižek,Brilliant reinterpretation of two of the most important - and misunderstood - books of our age,Authors is a Professor in Geography at Ohio State University (generally regarded as one of the top Geography departments in the USA) and has been an activist on the anticapitalist left for 30+ years, involved particularly in the indigenous land struggles, climate justice, Palestine, antiglobalization, labor, queer rights, and antiracism. He has lived and worked, apart from the USA, in Belize, Canada, China, Cuba, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa, Spain, & the UK. He has won four previous book awards.
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781804299418
Publisert
2025-11-25
Utgiver
Verso Books
Vekt
393 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352

Forfatter

Biografisk notat

Joel Wainwright, professor at Ohio State, is author of Geopiracy and Decolonizing Development, which won the Blaut award.