Ebook: Freedom in the Anthropocene: Twentieth-Century Helplessness in the Face of Climate Change

Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Smog, Haze, Sulfur: The Elusive Clarity of the Anthropocene; 1 The Great London Smog (1952); 2 Southeastern Asian Haze (2013); 3 Sulfur and the stratosphere (1815 and the future); Introduction: What Is the Meaning of Freedom in the Anthropocene?; 1 Georg Lukács (1885-1971) and the Critique of Reification: On the Dialectical Genesis of the Great Acceleration; 1 Marxism in crisis: social democracy on the eve of the Great Acceleration; 2 Critique of reification.;Freedom in the Anthropocene illuminates the Anthropocene from the perspective of critical theory. The authors contextualize our current ecological predicament by focusing on the issues of history and freedom and how they relate to our present inability to render environmental threats and degradation recognizable and surmountable.