The great derangement : climate change and the unthinkable / Amitav Ghosh

By:

Ghosh, Amitav

Language: English Series: Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin family lecturesPublication details: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.Edition: 1st edDescription: 196 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

9780226526812

Subject(s):

Climatic changes in literature

DDC classification:

809.9336 GHO

Summary: 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.

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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.

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