Critical ecologies : the Frankfurt School and contemporary environmental crises
by
 
Biro, Andrew, 1969-

Title
: 
Critical ecologies : the Frankfurt School and contemporary environmental crises

Author
: 
Biro, Andrew, 1969-

ISBN
: 
9780802098405
 
9780802095657

Publication Information
: 
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2011.

Physical Description
: 
viii, 366 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm

Contents
: 
PART ONE: Science and the Mastery of Nature -- Modern Science, Enlightenment, and the Domination of Nature: No Exit? / William Leiss -- Societal Relations with Nature: A Dialectical Approach to Environmental Politics / Christopher Görg -- The Politics of Science: Has Marcuse's New Science Finally Come of Age? / Katharine N Farrell -- PART TWO: Critical Theory, Life, and Nature -- Sacred Identity and the Sacrificial Spirit: Mimesis and Radical Ecology / Bruce Martin -- From 'Unity of Life' to the Critique of Domination: Jonas, Freud, and Marcuse [Sigmund Freud, Hans Jonas, Herbert Marcuse] / Colin Campbell -- PART THREE: Alienation and the Aesthetic -- Adorno's Aesthetic Rationality: On the Dialect of Natural and Artistic Beauty [Theodor Adorno] / Donald D Burke.
 
On Nature and Alienation by Steven Vogel -- Fear and the Unknown: Nature, Culture, and the Limits of Reason / Shane Gunster -- Ecological Crisis and the Culture Industry Thesis / Andrew Biro -- PART FOUR: Critical Theory's Moment -- Natural History, Sovereign Power, and Global Warming / Jonathan Short -- Adorno's Historical and Temporal Consciousness: Towards a Critical Theoretical Environmental Imagination / Michael Lipscomb -- Toward a Critique of Posthuman Reason: Revisiting 'Nature' and 'Humanity' in Horkheimer's 'The Concept of Man' [Max Horkheimer] / Timothy W Luke.

Abstract
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"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."--Pub. desc.

Subject Term
: 
Human ecology -- Philosophy.
 
Social ecology.
 
Ecology -- Philosophy.
 
Critical theory.

Added Author
: 
Biro, Andrew, 1969-


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