Pettman, Dominic
Sad Planets
- ISBN 13:
- 9781509562367
- author:
- Pettman, Dominic
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Polity Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 488
- Dimensions:
- 21.6 x 14 x 2.8 centimetres (0.3
- Genre:
- Nonfiction
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Sad Planets explores the relationship between human melancholia and a more impersonal sorrow, nestled in the heart of cosmic elements. Dominic Pettman and Eugene Thacker examine the "negative affects" associated with climate change, environmental destruction, and cosmic solitude.
The authors consider how our understanding of the planet and cosmos has increased, yet we have never felt so estranged from it. This book is a reckoning with the limits of human existence and comprehension, spanning topics from cosmology to the existential threat of climate change.
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