{"product_id":"9781804299418","title":"Prospect of an End: Darwin, and the Natural History of Capitalism and our Climate Crisis","description":"Author:\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781804299418\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Feb 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 336 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003ehad 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 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\u003ea study of natural history and the book concludes, of all things, by proposing a new scientific law of human population.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eProspect of an End \u003c\/i\u003eis 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?","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46655874629790,"sku":"UBD-9781804299418","price":52.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781804299418.jpg?v=1774836089","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781804299418","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}