The great derangement : climate change and the unthinkable
Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-2016
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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.
Main title:
The great derangement : climate change and the unthinkable / Amitav Ghosh.
Author:
Ghosh, Amitav, 1956-, author
Imprint:
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Collation:
176 pages ; 22 cm.
Series title:
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780226323039 (hbk)
Dewey class:
809.9336
LC class:
PN56.C612
Language:
English
BRN:
1833145
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