Marxism and Earth's Habitability Crisis - From the Metabolic Rift to the Anthropocene

This book argues that as long as capitalism is globally dominant, there must be a crisis of habitability on Earth. Overcoming this crisis is not a matter of technology. Technological strategies need to be adopted to mitigate human impact on Earth, but as long as they are implemented on a capitalist basis the crisis will not be overcome. Unfortunately, this is not fully understood today, and initiatives to confront the crisis based on idealism and positivism flourish everywhere. This makes research into the main epistemological reasons for the misunderstanding of the relationship between the reproduction of capital and the crisis of habitability an urgent task, which is undertaken throughout the book. Such misunderstanding is ultimately related to the old problem of philosophy, the relationship between thought and being. A problem that the crisis of habitability expresses as the insurmountable contradiction between capitalist humans and nature.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Formalization of the planetary crisis in the Geologic Time Scale.- Chapter 2: The Anthropocene. History and prospective.- Part II: The structural link of the habitability crisis to the capitalist mode of social reproduction.- Chapter 3: The reproduction and accumulation of capital by means of commodity production.- Chapter 4: Implications of the profit rate for the systemic crisis and the planetary crisis.- Part III: Gnoseological grounds to transcend the habitability crisis.- Chapter 5: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and other "-Cenes".- Chapter 6: Epistemic flaws of Earth system science concerning the habitability crisis on Earth.- Chapter 7: Overview of some theoretical approaches to the habitability crisis.- Chapter 8: Conclusions.

About the author

Carles Soriano Clemente is Senior researcher at Geosciences Barcelona, CSIC, Spain.

Product details

• Authors: Carles Soriano Clemente
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2024
• EAN: 9783031725364
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3172536-4
• No. of pages: 163
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 13 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Illustrations: VI, 163 p. 1 illus.
• Series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Nachhaltigkeit, Sustainability, Labor, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Theory of value, Anthropocene, Marxism, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie, Ecological Crisis, Capitalistic reproduction, Habitability, Dialectic approach, Geologic Time Scale, Earth Science System, Reproduction of Capital