Critical Ecologies : : The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises / / ed. by Andrew Biro.

• MitwirkendeR: Biro, Andrew,; Burke, Donald A.,; Campbell, Colin,; Farrell, Katharine N.,; Feenberg, Andrew,; Gunster, Shane,; Görg, Christoph,; Leiss, William,; Lipscomb, Michael,; Luke, Timothy W.,; Martin, D.Bruce,; Short, Jonathan,; Vogel, Steven,
• HerausgeberIn: Biro, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

Environmental movements are the subject of increasingly rigorous political theoretical study. Can the Frankfurt School's critical frameworks be used to address ecological issues, or do environmental conflicts remain part of the "failed promise" of this group? Critical Ecologies aims to redeem the theories of major Frankfurt thinkers-Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse, among others-by applying them to contemporary environmental crises.Critical Ecologies argues that sustainability and critical social theory have many similar goals, including resistance to different forms of domination. Like the Frankfurt School itself, the essays in this volume reflect a spirit of interdisciplinarity and draw attention to intersections between environmental, socio-political, and philosophical issues. Offering textual analyses by leading scholars in both critical theory and environmental politics, Critical Ecologies underscores the continued relevance of the Frankfurt School's ideas for addressing contemporary issues.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Paradoxes of Contemporary Environmental Crises and the Redemption of the Hopes of the Past -- PART ONE: SCIENCE AND THE MASTERY OF NATURE -- 1. Modern Science, Enlightenment, and the Domination of Nature: No Exit? -- 2. Societal Relationships with Nature: A Dialectical Approach to Environmental Politics -- 3. The Politics of Science: Has Marcuse's New Science Finally Come of Age? -- PART TWO: CRITICAL THEORY, LIFE, AND NATURE -- 4. Sacred Identity and the Sacrificial Spirit: Mimesis and Radical Ecology -- 5. From 'Unity of Life' to the Critique of Domination: Jonas, Freud, and Marcuse -- PART THREE: ALIENATION AND THE AESTHETIC -- 6. Adorno's Aesthetic Rationality: On the Dialectic of Natural and Artistic Beauty -- 7. On Nature and Alienation -- 8. Fear and the Unknown: Nature, Culture, and the Limits of Reason -- 9. Ecological Crisis and the Culture Industry Thesis -- PART FOUR: CRITICAL THEORY'S MOMENT -- 10. Natural History, Sovereign Power, and Global Warming -- 11. Adorno's Historical and Temporal Consciousness: Towards a Critical Theoretical Environmental Imagination -- 12. Towards a Critique of Post-Human Reason: Revisiting 'Nature' and 'Humanity' in Horkheimer's 'The Concept of Man' -- Afterword: The Liberation of Nature? -- Contributors -- Index