MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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The case against growth
JOHN GREEN is persuaded by an argument for the relevance of Marx’s late writings to the looming environmental catastrophe
ANTICIPATED BY MARX: An environmental degradation in the Niger Delta region resulting from exploitation of crude oil, May 2019
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PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Marx in the Anthropocene — Towards the Idea of a Degrowth Communism
By Kohei Saito, Cambridge University Press, £29.99
WITH the unfolding climate and environmental catastrophe, there has been a rising interest in what Marx and Engels had to say on such issues.
While one clearly can’t expect these two great 19th century thinkers to have foreseen, let alone commented upon, the human capacity for self-immolation, their holistic approach to understanding the material world and the way societies develop is certainly still relevant today.
In this refreshing and highly significant work, Kohei Saito draws on only recently published writings from Marx’s later notebooks on science and nature which reveal a less Promethean Marx.
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