Labour, Nature, Value
André Gorz between Marxism and Degrowth
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- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2026
Summary
The promise of a capitalist green economy is to transform ecological constraints on development into business opportunities. This may sound appealing but proves problematic on closer inspection. Emanuele Leonardi explains how this reasonable ideology fails by drawing on the work of Andre Gorz, the militant communist, editor of Les Temps Modernes, and journalist at Le Nouvel Observateur. The result connects degrowth thinking to Marxism.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804298855 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804298859 |
| Author: | Emanuele Leonardi, Yari Lanci |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
This is a beautiful piece of intellectual work. Via the theories of Andre Gorz, Leonardi generates an original interpretation of the logic driving the encounter of Marxist and Degrowth thought, and a compelling argument for the importance of this unexpected rendezvous * Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism *
Reading Andre Gorz, via the Italian operaismo, as a fundamental source for a Marxist interpretation of degrowth, this book comes up with a truly radical proposal: that of redefining wealth away from the capitalist value system. This makes it a much-needed contribution to working-class ecological politics today. * Stefania Barca, author of Workers of the Earth *
Emanuele Leonardi
Emanuele Leonardi works at the Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna (Italy). He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics (Elgar, 2022). Articles of his have been published by prominent journals such as Globalizations, Ecological Economics, Radical Philosophy and South Atlantic Quarterly.
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