The Light of Nature
Quincy Saul(Author)
Zed Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 1. August 2022
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-78360-959-8 (ISBN)
Description
We find ourselves in a moment of
unprecedented global confusion. Pockets of human concern for our environment
appear and disappear, many, perhaps most people though seem oblivious to the
potential ecological catastrophe we are facing. And yet it is the 21st
Century that must confront and resolve this universal crisis.
From the author of the critically
acclaimed The Enemy of Nature, comes
this all-inclusive Ecosocialist manifesto. Every phase of history has its own
mode of production, Kovel and Saul show that ours is based on the conversion of
everything to its money form, a mode that has turned nature into a mere
resource. Through impressive historical, political and philosophical
considerations The Light of Nature
calls for a reimagining of the intrinsic value of nature. Kovel and Saul's
Ecosocialism recognizes that all aspects of nature from a brain to a body, a
boulder to a bird, also have an intrinsic value, a value which cannot be used
or exchanged. An acknowledgement of this value not only holds the key to a
unified, global resistance to the genocidal and ecocidal forces of the 21st
Century, but to prefiguring a new mode of production and organization, a new
moment in history.
unprecedented global confusion. Pockets of human concern for our environment
appear and disappear, many, perhaps most people though seem oblivious to the
potential ecological catastrophe we are facing. And yet it is the 21st
Century that must confront and resolve this universal crisis.
From the author of the critically
acclaimed The Enemy of Nature, comes
this all-inclusive Ecosocialist manifesto. Every phase of history has its own
mode of production, Kovel and Saul show that ours is based on the conversion of
everything to its money form, a mode that has turned nature into a mere
resource. Through impressive historical, political and philosophical
considerations The Light of Nature
calls for a reimagining of the intrinsic value of nature. Kovel and Saul's
Ecosocialism recognizes that all aspects of nature from a brain to a body, a
boulder to a bird, also have an intrinsic value, a value which cannot be used
or exchanged. An acknowledgement of this value not only holds the key to a
unified, global resistance to the genocidal and ecocidal forces of the 21st
Century, but to prefiguring a new mode of production and organization, a new
moment in history.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78360-959-8 (9781783609598)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Quincy Saul, a cofounder of Ecosocialist Horizons with Joel Kovel, is the co-editor of Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz (2013), the author of Truth and Dare: A Comic Book Curriculum for the End and the Beginning of the World (2014), and Maroon Comix: Origins and Destinies (2018), and editor of The Emergence of Ecosocialism: Collected Essays by Joel Kovel (2019).
Content
Introduction
1. The Nature of the Enemy
2. Common Sense
3. The Tower of Babel
4. The Struggle for Intrinsic Value
5. From the Soil to the Sky
Afterword
1. The Nature of the Enemy
2. Common Sense
3. The Tower of Babel
4. The Struggle for Intrinsic Value
5. From the Soil to the Sky
Afterword