The climate of history in a planetary age / Dipesh Chakrabarty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chakrabarty, Dipesh, author.

Contributor:

Latour, Bruno.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Globalization.

Human ecology.

Civilization, Modern.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Summary:

"For the past decade, no thinker has had a greater influence on debates about the meaning of climate change in the humanities than the historian Dipesh Chakrabarty. Climate change, he has argued, upends our ideas about history, modernity, and globalization, and confronts humanists with the kinds of universals that they have been long loath to consider. Here Chakrabarty elaborates this thesis for the first time in book form and extends it in important ways. "The human condition," Chakrabarty writes, "has changed." The burden of "The Climate of History in a Planetary Age" is to grapple with what this means for historical and political thought. Chakrabarty argues that our times require us to see ourselves from two perspectives at once: the planetary and the global. The global (and thus globalization) are human constructs, but the planetary Earth system de-centers the human. Chakrabarty explores the question of modern freedoms in light of this globe/planet distinction. He also considers why Marxist, postcolonial, and other progressive scholarship has failed to account for the problems of human history that anthropogenic climate change poses. The book concludes with a conversation between Chakrabarty and the French anthropologist Bruno Latour. Few works are as likely to shape our understanding of the human condition as we open ourselves to the implications of the Anthropocene"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. The Globe and the Planet

ch. 1 Four Theses

ch. 2 Conjoined Histories

ch. 3 The Planet: A Humanist Category

II. The Difficulty of Being Modern

ch. 4 The Difficulty of Being Modern

ch. 5 Planetary Aspirations: Reading a Suicide in India

ch. 6 In the Ruins of an Enduring Fable

III. Facing the Planetary

ch. 7 Anthropocene Time

ch. 8 Toward an Anthropological Clearing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780226100500

0226100502

9780226732862

022673286X

OCLC:

1202730390

Publisher Number:

99987026586