{"product_id":"the-end-by-joel-wainwright-9781804299418","title":"The End","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKarl Marx wrote the most important critique of capitalism, \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e, in London during the 1860s, at the very moment that Charles Darwin’s \u003ci\u003eOn the Origin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e had shattered humanity’s conception of ourselves. In this path-breaking study, Joel Wainwright demonstrates that \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e was deeply influenced by Marx’s reading of Darwin’s \u003ci\u003eOrigin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e. Marx’s thinking about history and nature changed, generating his distinctive ecological critique of capitalism as a social formation. This is why Marx called \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e a study of natural history and the book concludes, of all things, by proposing a new scientific law of human population.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProspect of an End\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a study in revolutionary 19th century thought. Wainwright applies Marx’s natural historical approach to some of the great questions of our time: How did capitalism emerge? When did the Anthropocene begin? And how might we confront the planetary climate crisis?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47341236158700,"sku":"9781804299418","price":58.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11008483482830.jpg?v=1772187859","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-end-by-joel-wainwright-9781804299418","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}