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Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises

Andrew Biro
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Biro as mentioned in this paper discusses the paradoxes of contemporary environmental Crises and the Redemption of the Hopes of the Past by Andrew Biro (Acadia University) and Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University).
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Acknowledgments Introduction: The Paradoxes of Contemporary Environmental Crises and the Redemption of the Hopes of the Past by Andrew Biro (Acadia University) PART ONE: Science and the Mastery of Nature * Modern Science, Enlightenment, and the Domination of Nature: No Exit? by William Leiss (Professor Emeritus, Queen's University) * Societal Relations with Nature: A Dialectical Approach to Environmental Politics by Christopher Gorg (University of Kassel) * The Politics of Science: Has Marcuse's New Science Finally Come of Age? by Katharine N Farrell (Autonomous University Barcelona) PART TWO: Critical Theory, Life, and Nature * Sacred Identity and the Sacrificial Spirit: Mimesis and Radical Ecology by Bruce Martin (New Mexico State University * From 'Unity of Life' to the Critique of Domination: Jonas, Freud, and Marcuse by Colin Campbell (York University) PART THREE: Alienation and the Aesthetic * Adorno's Aesthetic Rationality: On the Dialect of Natural and Artistic Beauty by Donald D Burke (York University) * On Nature and Alienation by Steven Vogel (Denison University) * Fear and the Unknown: Nature, Culture, and the Limits of Reason by Shane Gunster (Simon Fraser University) * Ecological Crisis and the Culture Industry Thesis by Andrew Biro PART FOUR: Critical Theory's Moment * Natural History, Sovereign Power, and Global Warming by Jonathan Short (York University) * Adorno's Historical and Temporal Consciousness: Towards a Critical Theoretical Environmental Imagination by Michael Lipscomb (Winthrop University) * Toward a Critique of Posthuman Reason: Revisiting 'Nature' and 'Humanity' in Horkheimer's 'The Concept of Man' by Timothy W Luke (Virginia Polytechnic Institute) Afterword: The Liberation of Nature? by Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University)

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