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Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises

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Description for Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Biro, Andrew. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JPQB; RNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 564.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802095657
SKU
V9780802095657
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About Andrew (Ed) Biro
Andrew Biro is a professor in the Department of Politics at Acadia University.

Reviews for Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises
‘Critical Ecologies is an impressive selection of essays that successfully navigates the extremely challenging and ambiguous terrain of the early Frankfurt School… It is a sustained commitment to the equality of theory and its objects and the concomitant liberation of humanity and the material world.’
Robert M.W. Brown
The Goose 2012 issue 10
‘The volume succeeds beautifully ... Read more

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