
Joel Wainwright
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Mar 25, 2026
Dialectics Without Destiny: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis
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11:48BrettHOST
So kind of like from a bird's eye perspective, can you just kinda like pitch the book and let people know what you're trying to do in this one?

Joel WainwrightGUEST
So as the reader would guess from the title, this is a book about the end and what the end is and how we should think the end.

Joel WainwrightGUEST
So that is to say that the book is about teleology in social analysis, which is to say how ideas and arguments are made that presuppose a certain end.

Joel WainwrightGUEST
And one of the big arguments of the book is that Marx became an increasingly anti-teleological thinker as his life went on.And that Darwin helped him to arrive at that conclusion.

Joel WainwrightGUEST
But regarding the structure of the book, uh, there, the book is written in three parts.
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