Sense of Urgency

Debra Hawhee is the McCourtney Professor of Civic Deliberation and professor of English and communication arts and sciences at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author or editor of four books, including Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

• List of Figures1. Introduction: Intensifications2. Glacial Death: Making Future Memory Present3. “In a World Full of ‘Ifs’”: The Felt Time of Youth Climate Rhetors4. Learning Curves: COVID-19, Climate Change, and Mathematical Magnitude5. Presence and Placement in Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest6. Epilogue: FathomingAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

“A Sense of Urgency presents four detailed analyses of emerging rhetorical responses to the impact of climate change. . . . But the introduction and conclusion go beyond the case studies by arguing that contemporary environmental concerns now exert pressure on rhetorical scholarship itself.”