The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
by Amitav Ghosh
Description
In this incisive work of literary and cultural criticism, Amitav Ghosh examines why societies have struggled to imagine—and adequately confront—the scale of climate change. Moving across literature, history, and politics, he explores how conventional narratives often fail to capture extreme weather, the tangled origins of the carbon economy, and the global consequences of environmental disruption. Ghosh argues that the climate crisis demands more than individual concern or incremental reform: it requires new forms of collective thinking and storytelling. Provocative and urgent, the book is a compelling call to use the imaginative power of fiction and culture to face the defining challenge of our age.
Available Editions
hardcover
University of Chicago Press
Published Sep 14, 2016
196 pages
ISBN: 9780226323039
paperback
University of Chicago Press
Published Jan 1, 2017
205 pages
ISBN: 9780226526812
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First Published
2016
Language
eng
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