John Bellamy Foster – Paul Burkett. Marx and the Earth. An Anti-Critique.
Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2016.
310 páginas.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Three Stages of Ecosocialist Analysis
The Debate on Marx and Ecology a Decade and a Half Later
Marx’s ‘Major Ecological Flaw’: The Tanuro Thesis
Marx and the Foreshortening of Intrinsic Value: The Kovel Thesis
Marx, Aesthetics, and the Sensuous Value of Nature
1 – The Dialectic of Organic and Inorganic Relations
The Critique of ‘Marx’s Inorganic Body’
The Organic/Inorganic Distinction and Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature
Marx’s Dialectic of Organic/Inorganic: The Conditions of Human Existence
The Ecological Transformation of Marx’s Nature-Dialectic
Instrumentalism and Teleology: Contradictions in the Ecological Critique of Marx
Toward Ecological Materialism
2 – The Origins of Ecological Economics: Podolinsky and Marx-Engels
Podolinsky: Life and Work
Development of Podolinsky’s Project
Accumulation of Energy on Earth
Problems with the Quantitative Energy Accumulation Approach
Podolinsky’s Analysis as a Basis for Value Theory
Value and Nature: Marx and Sieber versus Podolinsky
Podolinsky’s Perfect Machine Argument
Shortcomings of the Perfect Machine Perspective
Marx’s Notes on Podolinsky
Engels’s Comments on Podolinsky
Elaborations in Die Neue Zeit
Stoffwechsel
3 – Classical Marxism and Energetics
Introduction
Labour Power and its Value
Energy and Surplus Value
Capitalist Industrialisation and Thermodynamics in Marx’s Capital
Entropy and the Metabolic Rift
4 – Engels, Entropy, and the Heat Death Hypothesis
Introduction
The Second Law and the Heat Death of the Universe
The Heat Death Hypothesis and Nineteenth-Century Physics
Marxism, the Entropy Law, and Ecology
Conclusion: The Dialectics of Nature and Society and the Second Law
5 – The Reproduction of Economy and Society
Introduction
Ecological Economists on Marx’s Reproduction Schemes
Production and Circular Flows in the tableau économique
Marx on the tableau économique
Production, Nature and Monetary Flows in Marx’s Schemes
The Analytical Background for Marx’s Schemes
The Reproduction Schemes and Environmental Crises
Conclusion
Conclusion: Marx and Metabolic Restoration
Marx’s Ecology after Marx (and after Engels)
Marx, Metabolism, and Open-System Economics
Against Energeticism
Metabolic Restoration: Toward Sustainable Human Development
Appendix 1: Sergei Podolinsky, ‘Socialism and the Unity of Physical Forces’ (Translated from the Italian)
Appendix 2: Sergei Podolinsky, ‘Human Labour and the Unity of Force’ (Translated from the German)
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