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Cover: 9780226526812 | Great Derangement | Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh
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Great Derangement
Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Taschenbuch von Amitav Ghosh
Sprache: Englisch

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"Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, makes them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements. Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence--a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer's summons to confront the most urgent task of our time"--Dust jacket.
"Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, makes them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements. Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence--a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer's summons to confront the most urgent task of our time"--Dust jacket.
Über den Autor
Amitav Ghosh is a novelist and essayist whose many books include the acclaimed Ibis Trilogy (Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire), Gun Island, Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban, and The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Übersetzungstitel: Die große Verblendung
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226526812
ISBN-10: 022652681X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ghosh, Amitav
Hersteller: University of Chicago Pr.
Maße: 213 x 141 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Amitav Ghosh
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.09.2017
Gewicht: 0,262 kg
Artikel-ID: 108573648
Über den Autor
Amitav Ghosh is a novelist and essayist whose many books include the acclaimed Ibis Trilogy (Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire), Gun Island, Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban, and The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
Übersetzungstitel: Die große Verblendung
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226526812
ISBN-10: 022652681X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ghosh, Amitav
Hersteller: University of Chicago Pr.
Maße: 213 x 141 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Amitav Ghosh
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.09.2017
Gewicht: 0,262 kg
Artikel-ID: 108573648
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