Criticism of Capital Logic and Construction of Life Logic——Life Political Implication of Joel Kovel's Ecological Socialist Theory
The right of human life has gradually been highlighted with the development of modernity.As a product of the development of modernity,the philosophy of life politics demonstrates a value review of the natural life rights of humans as modern subjects.In this sense,Kovel,based on the values of eco-logical centrism,places humans in the collection of the entire ecosystem.His theory of ecological social-ism demonstrates political concern for human life rights and has rich life political implications in both re-vealing ecological crises and criticizing the logic of capital as the root cause of crises.Kovel not only ex-poses the infiltration of capital and crisis into the human life world from a theoretical perspective,as well as the alienation of human life rights from the"capital force field",but also proposes the basic con-cept of human life political return from the perspective of capitalism in practice,which is to lead to an ecological socialist society to achieve the essential possession of human life rights.Therefore,Kovel's theory takes the criticism of capital logic and the construction of life logic as its theoretical theme,con-taining a life political logic that focuses on criticizing the alienation of human life rights by the"capital force field",and aims to overcome the alienation of life rights and achieve the liberation of human life.
Joel Kovelecological socialismlife politicsemancipation of human life