The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable [Audiobook] download free by Amitav Ghosh
- Listen audiobook: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
- Author: Amitav Ghosh
- Release date: 2017/11/4
- Publisher: THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780226526812
- Rating: 7.81 of 10
- Votes: 340
- Review by: Logan French
- Review rating: 8.18 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/29
- Duration: 2H10M in 256 kbps (35.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-16
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, FLAC, WAV, MPEG-4 DST, MP3, WMA (compression ISO, CBR, TAR.BZ, RAR, CAB, ZIP, ALZ)
- Total pages original book: 176
- Includes a PDF summary of 19 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M24S (3.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literature: History & Criticism, Earth Sciences, Conservation Of The Environment, Literary Studies: General, Politics & Government
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.26 USD
- Dimensions: 137.16x213.36x15.24mm
- Weight: 272.16g
- Printed by: University of Chicago Press
- Published in: United States
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