Alyssa Battistoni | Free gifts: Capitalism and the politics of nature, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2025, pp. 328.
If capitalism is all about relentless commodification, how come it fails to value many kinds of nature, treating it, in Marx’s famous expression, as a “free gift”? This seeming paradox is the problem that political scientist Alyssa Battistoni sets out to explore in her book Free Gifts: Capitalism a...
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| Περίληψη: | If capitalism is all about relentless commodification, how come it fails to value many kinds of nature, treating it, in Marx’s famous expression, as a “free gift”? This seeming paradox is the problem that political scientist Alyssa Battistoni sets out to explore in her book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. Battistoni argues that the “free gift” is not an alternative to the capitalist commodity, but rather “a distinctively capitalist form ... the form that nature takes in so... |
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