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Capitalism, Romanticism, and Nature
Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature: The Enchanted Garden
By: Robert Sayre and Michael Löwy
Routledge, 2020
Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature is an extremely interesting book enjoyable, informative, and intellectually stimulating.
Naomi Klein says of climate change, “This changes everything.” She is right, and among the things it changes are not only current political perspectives but also our understanding of past texts. The classic example of this is John Bellamy Foster’s reinterpretation of Marx in his key work
, Marx’s Ecology. I could not say how often I had read these lines from
The German Ideology:
The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organization of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature. Of course, we cannot here go either into the actual physical nature of man, or into the nat
âAsbury Park does nothing, it simply amuses,â noted author Stephen Crane, who once lived in the New Jersey seaside amusement mecca. And in his 19th century heyday there were a lot of places, big and small, in an America that played that role. Among those that did so locally, from roughly 1891 to 1906, was Lauryâs Island Park, sometimes known simply as Island Park. This should not be confused with a similarly named amusement park near Easton. It grew out of Lauryâs Station, a stop on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and thrived at a time when Americans were having a few extra quarters to enjoy an outdoor picnic grove, take a ride on a merry-go round or enjoy a tranquil cruise on a warm, summer afternoon in the pre-air conditioner era.