Name: Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
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Author: Kohei Saito
ISBN: 9781009366182

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Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kohei Saito

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Pages

292

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9781009366182

Synopsis "Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism "

Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even suppressed by Marxists after his death throughout the twentieth century. Marx's ecological critique of capitalism, however, revives in the Anthropocene against dominant productivism and monism. Investigating new materials published in the complete works of Marx and Engels (Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe), Saito offers a wholly novel idea of Marx's alternative to capitalism that should be adequately characterized as degrowth communism. This provocative interpretation of the late Marx sheds new lights on the recent debates on the relationship between society and nature and invites readers to envision a post-capitalist society without repeating the failure of the actually existing socialism of the twentieth century.

Kohei Saito

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Kohei Saito (Tokyo, 1987) is an acclaimed Japanese economic philosopher. After earning his PhD in Philosophy from Humboldt University in Berlin, in 2018 he became the youngest winner of the prestigious Deutscher Memorial Prize for his work Nature Against Capital, translated into seven languages and praised as a monumental work by philosopher Slavoj Žižek. His second published book, Capital in the Age of the Anthropocene, has been a huge sales success in Japan, with nearly half a million readers, and received the 2021 Asian Book Award for best book of the year for capturing, with utmost clarity and great acceptance among young Japanese, the necessary change in our era. Currently, Saito is an associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo.

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