Autore
Monferrand, Frédéric

Titolo
A Social Ontology for Political Ecology. Marx’s Historical Naturalism
Periodico
Politica & società
Anno: 2025 - Volume: 41 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 287 - Pagina finale: 305

This article reconsiders Marx’s critique of alienation from nature as articulated in the "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844", engaging with contemporary debates in political ecology. While many environmental theorists attribute the ecological crisis to a dualistic separation between nature and society, two contrasting positions emerge: one that dismisses nature as a meaningful category, and another that advocates for reclaiming the natural dimension of social life. I defend the latter stance by proposing a form of "critical naturalism" that interprets Marx’s naturalism as inherently historical in three key ways. First, it finds its historical condition of possibility in capitalist development, which compels us to care about nature precisely to the extent that it devalues it. Second, it deals with an historical object: the human form of life, of which capitalism is a uniquely alienating configuration. Third, it raises a historical issue: the liberation of nature from its capitalist appropriation. By demonstrating how capitalism alienates both human and non-human nature by putting it to work, the article shows that confronting the ecological crisis requires reinventing socialism as a politics of nature.



SICI: 2240-7901(2025)41:3<287:ASOFPE>2.0.ZU;2-K
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