The Climate of History in a Planetary Age - Couverture souple

Chakrabarty, Dipesh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022673286X ISBN 13 : 9780226732862

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2021

Synopsis

For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they have been reluctant to reconsider—from the changed nature of human agency to a new acceptance of universals.

Chakrabarty argues that we must see ourselves from two perspectives at once: the planetary and the global. This distinction is central to Chakrabarty’s work—the globe is a human-centric construction, while a planetary perspective intentionally decenters the human. Featuring wide-ranging excursions into historical and philosophical literatures, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age boldly considers how to frame the human condition in troubled times. As we open ourselves to the implications of the Anthropocene, few writers are as likely as Chakrabarty to shape our understanding of the best way forward.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the recipient of the 2014 Toynbee Prize, which is given to a distinguished practitioner of global history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022673286X
• ISBN 13: 9780226732862
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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