Ökologische Denkansätze

Der konservative Denker würdigt traditionelle Prinzipien als offensichtlichste und wirksamste

Das Ergebnis seiner Reise durch das grüne Empire des WWF ist erschütt

This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from “the necessary distance” has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications. First of all, it is the outcome of speculations and investigations of human beings in relation to their home planet carried out over millennia. In particular, it reveals a split between the ancient idea of the Earth as nurturing mother and the more recent conception of the Earth as a neutral resource able to be infinitely exploited by huma

Als 1986 Risikogesellschaft erschien, machte das Ulrich Beck schlagartig berühmt. Der Soziologe wies nicht nur auf die Nebenfolgen der Industriemoderne hin, er betonte zugleich, dass die Welt sich auch dann permanent verändert, wenn wir meinen, einen vorübergehenden Zustand mit Institutionen und Konzepten einfrieren zu können. Mit beispielloser Neugier spürte Beck den Indizien des Wandels nach und öffnete uns mit der Lust an der terminologischen Innovation die Augen für Individualisi

List of Abbreviations and Symbols
Glossary
Foreword by John Holloway
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Capital and Crises
2. Money: The Universal Equivalent
3. Yenomon: Commoning
4. System Change, Not Climate Change
5. Women’s Liberation: Equality and Values
6. Technology and the Real Debt Cycle
7. Indigenous Peoples, Real Values and the Community Mode of Production
8. Occupy the World!
Notes
Annotated Select Reading List and Links

Addresses essential questions about the reach and power of science in describing and understanding the world

An interdisciplinary adventure, combining the approaches of physics, philosophy and biology

According to reviews of the German edition "A book no library should be without!"

Author is an internationally renown physicist and philosopher of science

More than thirty years after the collapse of the USSR, the critique of state socialism is still used to deny alternatives to capitalism, irrespective of global capitalist ecological and social devastation. There is seemingly nothing worthwhile salvaging from decades of state socialist experiences.

As the climate crisis deepens, Engel-Di Mauro argues that we need to re-evaluate the environmental practices and policies of state socialism, especially as they had more en

List of Figures and Boxes
List of Abbreviations and Symbols
Glossary
Series Preface
Foreword by Jason Hickel
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Exploring ‘Degrowth’
2. Decolonising Our Growth Imaginaries
3. Degrowth in Practice
4. Political Strategies for Degrowth
5. The Degrowth Project: A Work in Progress
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