Climate of History in a Planetary Age

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvDipesh Chakrabarty

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-03-22
Mått152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt582 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226100500

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Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He is the recipient of the 2014 Toynbee Prize, which is given to a distinguished practitioner of global history.

Introduction: Intimations of the PlanetaryPart I: The Globe and the Planet1 Four Theses2 Conjoined Histories3 The Planet: A Humanist CategoryPart II: The Difficulty of Being Modern4 The Difficulty of Being Modern5 Planetary Aspirations: Reading a Suicide in India6 In the Ruins of an Enduring FablePart III: Facing the Planetary7 Anthropocene Time8 Toward an Anthropological ClearingPostscript: The Global Reveals the Planetary: A Conversation with Bruno LatourAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

“With his new masterwork, Chakrabarty confirms that he is one of the most creative and philosophically-minded historians writing today. The oppositions he proposes between the global of globalization and the global of global warming, between the world and the planet, between sustainability and habitability are illuminating and effective for thinking and acting through our highly uncertain and disoriented times.”