Ghosh Amitav The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable 9780226323039

Сейчас книги нет в продаже.
Возможно появится в будущем.

Автор: Ghosh Amitav
Название: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Перевод названия: Джош Амитав: Великая депрессия
ISBN: 9780226323039
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

Загрязнение окружающей среды и другие угрозы

Изменение климата

ISBN-10: 022632303X
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 176
Вес: 0.40 кг.
Дата издания: 22.09.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 150 x 224 x 23
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Climate change and the unthinkable
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Рейтинг:
Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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 counter-intuitive 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 challenge to his peers to create works that confront this urgent need before it is too late.

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, Ghosh Amitav