The ecological crisis and the logic of capital / / by Chen Xueming ; translated by Wu Lihuan and Liu Baixiang ; revised by Chad Austin Meyers ; advised by Stephen Eric Sandelius.

• Author: Chen, Xueming, 1947-
• TeilnehmendeR: Lihuan, Wu.; Baixiang, Liu.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English; Chinese
• Series: Studies in Moral Philosophy 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (606 pages).

The worsening environmental crisis has become a serious threat to mankind. The search for a solution to this crisis must begin by understanding its causes. Taking an eco-socialist perspective, The Ecological Crisis and the Logic of Capital explores the logic of capitalism as a fundamental cause of today’s environmental crisis, in particular the thirst for profit and the capitalist mode of production. By demonstrating the inherent antagonism between capital and ecology, this book argues that proposals to resolve the crisis within the capitalist system are utopian, that proposed remedies relying on scientific progress, alternative energies, low-carbon technologies or the introduction of ecological ethics and new attitudes toward Nature into market mechanisms are doomed to failure without a radical overhaul of the principles that govern capitalism.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Capital and Ecology -- John Bellamy Foster’s Research on the Ecological Crisis -- The Theoretical Basis of Ecological Civilization -- The Ecological Implications of Marx’s Materialist View of Nature -- The Ecological Implications of Marx’s Materialist Conception of History -- The Ecological Implications of Marx’s Theory of “Metabolism” -- The Revelation of Marx’s Ecological Theory: Antagonism between Capital and Ecology -- The Bush Administration and the Kyoto Protocol -- Giving up Illusions in Order to Overcome the Ecological Crisis -- The Fight against the Ecological Crisis -- Research from Other Ecological Marxists -- James O’Connor: The Intrinsic Relationship between Marxism and Ecology -- David Pepper: Why Marx’s Ecological Theory Is Needed Now More Than Ever -- Paul Burkett: The Inherent Relationship between Natural, Social and Environmental Crises in Marxism -- Andre Gorz: Surpassing Economic Logic as the Key to Constructing an Ecological Civilization -- Ben Agger: The Ecological Dilemma has Shattered People’s Faith in Capitalism -- William Leiss: A Marxist Approach to Green Theory -- Herbert Marcuse: The Marxist Path to Ecological Revolution -- The Implications of Ecological Marxism -- Marxism and the Construction of an Ecological Civilization -- The Inspiration of Ecological Marxism for Constructing an Ecologically Friendly Civilization -- Ecological Marxism’s Opposition to Postmodernism -- Western Marxism’s Rejection of Postmodernism -- Personal Fulfillment through Production Rather than Consumption—An Essential Thesis of Ecological Marxism -- Ecological Marxism’s New Reflection on Contemporary Capitalism -- An Ecologically Friendly Civilization is an Essential Goal of Chinese Socialism -- The Strategic Choice for the Construction of Ecological Civilization under Chinese Socialism -- Challenges for the Construction of an Ecologically Friendly Civilization.