Ghosh, Amitav
The Great Derangement
- ISBN 13:
- 9780226526812
- author:
- Ghosh, Amitav
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 176
- Dimensions:
- 21.34 x 13.72 x 1.52 centimetres
- Genre:
- Science, Earth Sciences, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh examines our inability to grasp the scale and violence of climate change, arguing that future generations may view us as deranged. He explores how extreme climate events are resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining, particularly in serious literary fiction and historical accounts. Ghosh contends that politics has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than collective action, but this limits our ability to imagine alternative forms of human existence. Fiction, however, is well-suited to exploring such possibilities. This book serves as a summons to confront the urgent task of our time. By examining literature, history, and politics through the lens of climate change, Ghosh sheds light on the complexities of the carbon economy and the need for collective action.
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