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Ecology and historical materialism /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ecology and historical materialism // Jonathan Hughes.
remainder title:	Ecology & Historical Materialism
Author:	Hughes, Jonathan,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 219 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Ecology. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490262
ISBN:	9780511490262 (ebook)

Ecology and historical materialism /
Hughes, Jonathan,1966-

Ecology and historical materialism /Ecology & Historical MaterialismJonathan Hughes. - 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Studies in Marxism and social theory. - Studies in Marxism and social theory..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

1. Ecological problems: definition and evaluation -- 2. Marxism and the green Malthusians -- 3. Marxism and the ecological method -- 4. Historical materialism: locating society in nature -- 5. Development of the productive forces -- 6. Capitalism, socialism and the satisfaction of needs.

This book challenges the widely-held view that Marxism is unable to deal adequately with environmental problems. Jonathan Hughes considers the nature of environmental problems, and the evaluative perspectives that may be brought to bear on them. He examines Marx's critique of Malthus, his method, and his materialism, interpreting the latter as a recognition of human dependence on nature. Central to the book's argument is an interpretation of the 'development of the productive forces' which takes account of the differing ecological impacts of different productive technologies while remaining consistent with the normative and explanatory roles that this concept plays within Marx's theory. Turning finally to Marx's vision of a society founded on the communist principle 'to each according to his needs', the author concludes that the underlying notion of human need is one whose satisfaction presupposes only a modest and ecologically feasible expansion of productive output.

ISBN: 9780511490262 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

575279
Ecology.

LC Class. No.: QH541 / .H83 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 577/.01

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