Prospect of an End: Darwin, and the Natural History of Capitalism and our Climate Crisis

Prospect of an End: Darwin, and the Natural History of Capitalism and our Climate Crisis by Bloomsbury is a Reading title available in paperback book format. Karl Marx wrote the most important critique of capitalism, Capital , in London during the 1860s, at the very moment that Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species had shattered humanity's conception of ourselves. In this path-breaking study, Joel Wainwright demonstrates that Capital was deeply influenced by Marx's reading Darwin's Origin of Species . Marx's thinking about history and nature changed, generating his distinctive ecological critique of capitalism as a social formation. This is why Marx called Capital a study of natural history and the book concludes, of all things, by proposing a new scientific law of human population. Prospect of an End is not only a study in revolutionary 19th century thought. Wainwright applies Marx's natural historical approach to some of the great questions of our time- How did capitalism emerge? When did the Anthropocene begin? And how might we confront the planetary climate crisis?

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