%0 Journal Article 
%A McCauley, Alex
%T The promise of disaster: specters of Malthus in marxist dreams

%D 2018
%@ 2171-9594
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/33220
%X This article considers Malthus in the context of Marxist criticism and ecology. While these critics see Malthus as a proponent of austerity, this essay reads the "Essay on the Principle of Population" to suggest that Malthus establishes pain, rather than pleasure, as a primary political problem, and that the ecological apocalypse he predicts is mirrored by his concern for an intellectual apocalypse that derives from pain—his own toothache. It considers also the function of the French Revolution, and hunger, in Malthusian thought.

%K Malthus
%K Marxism
%K Ecology
%K French revolution
%K Marxismo
%K Ecología
%K Revolución francesa
%K Hambre
%K Hunger
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Medio ambiente
%K Environmental science
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala