The Progress of This Storm - Nature and Society in a Warming World

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each otherIn a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them apart from dead matter. But is it really so? In this blistering polemic and theoretical manifesto, Andreas Malm develops a counterargument: in a warming world, nature comes roaring back, and it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural and the social. Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can resistance become conceivable.

About the author

Andreas Malm is Associate Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden. He is the author of several acclaimed books, such as, with the Zetkin Collective, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism. His book How to Blow Up a Pipeline is an international bestseller and has been turned into a feature film.

Report

Andreas Malm's new masterpiece The Progress of This Storm fills an urgent need, as did his seminal Fossil Capital in 2016. In his earlier book, he demonstrated that the fossil capitalism was not preordained by God or Nature or Technology, and that the answer is system change not climate change. In his new study, he teaches us how we can transcend those fashionable, ecological philosophies, clouding our understanding, that stand in the way of the unity of environmental theory and practice. No more definitive work of its kind exists today. John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review, author of Marx's Ecology

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Malm, Malm Andreas
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.02.2020
• EAN: 9781788739405
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-940-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Political Parties, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Social Theory, Climate Change, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, social and political philosophy, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Social impact of environmental issues, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Marxism & Communism, Political Manifestos