The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis
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9781804299418
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2025
352 pages
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25575
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How Marx provides new insights into our environmental crisis when read alongside Darwin
Description
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.
Praise and Reviews
"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 Franta Fanon: Philosopher of Barricades-------------------
"The End 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 Climate Leviathan
About the Author
Joel Wainwright, professor at Ohio State, is author of Geopiracy and Decolonizing Development, which won the Blaut award.
The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis
By : Joel Wainwright
How Marx provides new insights into our environmental crisis when read alongside Darwin
Description
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.
Praise and Reviews
"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 Franta Fanon: Philosopher of Barricades-------------------
"The End 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 Climate Leviathan
About the Author
Joel Wainwright, professor at Ohio State, is author of Geopiracy and Decolonizing Development, which won the Blaut award.