The Light of Nature

By Quincy Saul

Book Overview

We find ourselves in a moment ofunprecedented global confusion. Pockets of human concern for our environmentappear and disappear, many, perhaps most people though seem oblivious to thepotential ecological catastrophe we are facing. And yet it is the 21stCentury that must confront and resolve this universal crisis. From the author of the criticallyacclaimed The Enemy of Nature , comesthis all-inclusive Ecosocialist manifesto. Every phase of history has its ownmode of production, Kovel and Saul show that ours is based on the conversion ofeverything to its money form, a mode that has turned nature into a mereresource. Through impressive historical, political and philosophicalconsiderations The Light of Nature calls for a reimagining of the intrinsic value of nature. Kovel and Saul'sEcosocialism recognizes that all aspects of nature from a brain to a body, aboulder to a bird, also have an intrinsic value, a value which cannot be usedor exchanged. An acknowledgement of this value not only holds the key to aunified, global resistance to the genocidal and ecocidal forces of the 21stCentury, but to prefiguring a new mode of production and organization, a newmoment in history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783609583
• ISBN13: 9781783609581
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 8.6"