Critical Ecologies : : The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises /

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

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 t...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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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

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