{"product_id":"the-end-joel-wainwright-9781804299418","title":"The End","description":"Karl Marx wrote the most important critique of capitalism, \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Capital\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;, in London during the 1860s, at the very moment that Charles Darwin’s \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;On the Origin of Species\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; had shattered humanity’s conception of ourselves. In this path-breaking study, Joel Wainwright demonstrates that \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Capital\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; was deeply influenced by Marx’s reading Darwin’s \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Origin of Species\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;. Marx’s thinking about history and nature changed, generating his distinctive ecological critique of capitalism as a social formation. This is why Marx called \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Capital\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; a study of natural history and the book concludes, of all things, by proposing a new scientific law of human population.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;The End\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt; 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? How should we grasp human nature? And how might we confront the planetary climate crisis?","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50976580731168,"sku":"9781804299418","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-end-joel-wainwright-9781804299418","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}