Critical ecologies : the Frankfurt School and contemporary environmental crises /

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Imprint:Toronto [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
©2011
Description:1 online resource (viii, 366 pages) : 1 illustration
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11278656
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Other authors / contributors:Biro, Andrew, 1969-
ISBN:9781442661660
1442661666
9780802095657
9780802098405
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on January 8, 2020).
Summary:"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 to intersections between environmental, socio-political, and philosophical issues. Offering textual analyses by leading scholars in both critical theory and environmental politics, Critical Ecologies underscores the continued relevance of the Frankfurt School's ideas for addressing contemporary issues."--Publisher description.
Other form:Print version: Critical ecologies. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2011 9780802098405