The Enemy Of Nature: The End Of Capitalism Or The End Of The World? Book Information:

Nature faces the harsh but increasingly inescapable conclusionthat capitalism is the driving force behind the ecological crisis, and draws theradical implications. Joel Kovel, noted scholar and author, also public speakerand green campaigner, indicts capitalism, with its unrelenting pressure toexpand, as both inherently ecodestructive and unreformable. He argues againstthe reigning orthodoxy that there can be no alternative to the capitalistsystem, not because this orthodoxy is weak, but because submission to it issuicidal as well as unworthy of human beings. Kovel sees capital as not just aneconomic system but as the present manifestation of an ancient rupture betweenhumanity and nature. This widening of scope is given theoretical weight in the secondpart of the work, which develops a positive synthesis between Marxism,ecofeminism and the philosophy of nature. Kovel criticizes existing ecological politics for their evasionof capital,advances a vision of ecological production as the successor to capitalist production,and develops the principles for realizing this, as an 'ecosocialism', in thecontext of anti-globalization politics. The book is written in the spirit of the great radical motto: 'Be realistic- demand theimpossible!' Its author dares to think the unthinkable - we have a choice:capitalist barbarism and ecocatastrophe, or the building of a society worthy ofhumanity and nature.

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Reference

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Hardcover

• Language :

English

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• The Enemy Of Nature: The End Of Capitalism Or The End Of The World? Published On :

2003

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Reference Book is recommended for Students, Teachers, Graduates, Professionals, and all bibliophiles

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