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The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (Hardcover)
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The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (Hardcover)
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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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