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 t...

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.