Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises

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

1. Modern Science, Enlightenment, and the Domination of Nature: No Exit? by William Leiss (Professor Emeritus, Queen's University)
2. Societal Relations with Nature: A Dialectical Approach to Environmental Politics by Christopher Görg (University of Kassel)
3. 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

1. Sacred Identity and the Sacrificial Spirit: Mimesis and Radical Ecology by Bruce Martin (New Mexico State University
2. From ‘Unity of Life’ to the Critique of Domination: Jonas, Freud, and Marcuse by Colin Campbell (York University)

PART THREE: Alienation and the Aesthetic

1. Adorno’s Aesthetic Rationality: On the Dialect of Natural and Artistic Beauty by Donald D Burke (York University)
2. On Nature and Alienation by Steven Vogel (Denison University)
3. Fear and the Unknown: Nature, Culture, and the Limits of Reason by Shane Gunster (Simon Fraser University)
4. Ecological Crisis and the Culture Industry Thesis by Andrew Biro

PART FOUR: Critical Theory’s Moment

1. Natural History, Sovereign Power, and Global Warming by Jonathan Short (York University)
2. Adorno’s Historical and Temporal Consciousness: Towards a Critical Theoretical Environmental Imagination by Michael Lipscomb (Winthrop University)
3. 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)