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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Release date: 12 July 2016
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Are we deranged? One of Indias greatest writers, Amitav Ghosh, argues that future generations may... Read More

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Are we deranged? One of Indias greatest writers, Amitav Ghosh, argues that future generations may well think so. How else can we explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In this groundbreaking return to non-fiction, 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 todays climate events makes them peculiarly resistant to the contemporary imagination. In fiction, hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel and are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications. Ghosh suggests that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit culture 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 forms. The Great Derangement serves as a brilliant writers summons to confront the most urgent task of our time.

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Title: The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
SKU: BK0124145
EAN: 9780670089130
Number Of Pages: 284
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Release date: 12 July 2016

About Author

Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956), is a Bengali Indian author best known for his work in English fiction. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by David Shankbone (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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