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The Great Derangement

- Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Af: Amitav Ghosh Engelsk Paperback

The Great Derangement

- Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Af: Amitav Ghosh Engelsk Paperback
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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, make 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.
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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, make 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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 176
ISBN-13: 9780226526812
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 022652681X
Kategori: Bevaring af miljøet
Udg. Dato: 24 jul 2017
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 215mm
Højde: 142mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 24 jul 2017
Forfatter(e): Amitav Ghosh
Forfatter(e) Amitav Ghosh

Kategori Bevaring af miljøet

ISBN-13 9780226526812

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 176

Udgave

Længde 15mm

Bredde 215mm

Højde 142mm

Udg. Dato 24 jul 2017

Oplagsdato 24 jul 2017

Forlag The University of Chicago Press