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The Great Derangement - Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Paperback)
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The Great Derangement - Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Paperback)
Series: Berlin Family Lectures
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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. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction:
hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too
improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other
genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has
sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the
history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many
contradictory and counterintuitive elements. Ghosh ends by
suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter
of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective
action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral
adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to
imagine other forms of human existence--a task to which fiction,
Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book
serves as a great writer's summons to confront the most urgent task
of our time.
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