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The great derangement : climate change and the unthinkable
Ghosh, Amitav
The great derangement : climate change and the unthinkable / Amitav Ghosh - 1st ed. - Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. - 196 pages ; 22 cm - Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin family lectures .
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.
9780226526812
Climatic changes in literature
809.9336 / GHO
The great derangement : climate change and the unthinkable / Amitav Ghosh - 1st ed. - Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. - 196 pages ; 22 cm - Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin family lectures .
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.
9780226526812
Climatic changes in literature
809.9336 / GHO