Trevor,
your appeal to marxism as a touchstone of social theory leaves me cold. The Australian Marxist knew the country was screwed in an environmental sense. But they were unwilling to evaluate their doctrine in the light of this devastation.
I find the same with Adorno. Here we have a gesture to the domination of nature by instrumental reason, then silence about the ecological consequences of economic growth. It was not seen as important.
Give me Heidegger's account of technological being and dwelling ethics anyday.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at August 8, 2004 05:42 PM | TrackBack