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Dipesh Chakrabarty
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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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296 pages | 2 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2021
Earth Sciences: ENVIRONMENT
History: ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, HISTORY OF IDEAS
Literature and Literary Criticism: GENERAL CRITICISM AND CRITICAL THEORY
REVIEWS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXCERPT
GALLERY
AWARDS
AUTHOR EVENTS
RELATED TITLES
REVIEWS
“With his new masterwork, Chakrabarty confirms that he is one of the most creative and philosophically-minded historians writing today. The oppositions he proposes between the global of globalization and the global of global warming, between the world and the planet, between sustainability and habitability are illuminating and effective for thinking and acting through our highly uncertain and disoriented times.”
François Hartog, author of ‘Chronos’
“One of the first thinkers to reckon with the concept of the Anthropocene and its relation to humanism and its critics, Chakrabarty forges new territory in his account of the planetary. If globalism was an era of human and market interconnection, the planetary marks the intrusion of geological forces, transforming both the concept of ‘the human’ and its accompanying sense of agency. This is a tour de force of critical thinking that will prove to be a game changer for the humanities.”
Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Intimations of the Planetary
Part I: The Globe and the Planet
1 Four Theses
2 Conjoined Histories
3 The Planet: A Humanist Category
Part II: The Difficulty of Being Modern
4 The Difficulty of Being Modern
5 Planetary Aspirations: Reading a Suicide in India
6 In the Ruins of an Enduring Fable
Part III: Facing the Planetary
7 Anthropocene Time
8 Toward an Anthropological Clearing
Postscript: The Global Reveals the Planetary: A Conversation with Bruno Latour
Acknowledgments
Notes
IndexREAD LESS
296 pages | 2 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2021
Earth Sciences: ENVIRONMENT
History: ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, HISTORY OF IDEAS
Literature and Literary Criticism: GENERAL CRITICISM AND CRITICAL THEORY
REVIEWS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXCERPT
GALLERY
AWARDS
AUTHOR EVENTS
RELATED TITLES
REVIEWS
“With his new masterwork, Chakrabarty confirms that he is one of the most creative and philosophically-minded historians writing today. The oppositions he proposes between the global of globalization and the global of global warming, between the world and the planet, between sustainability and habitability are illuminating and effective for thinking and acting through our highly uncertain and disoriented times.”
François Hartog, author of ‘Chronos’
“One of the first thinkers to reckon with the concept of the Anthropocene and its relation to humanism and its critics, Chakrabarty forges new territory in his account of the planetary. If globalism was an era of human and market interconnection, the planetary marks the intrusion of geological forces, transforming both the concept of ‘the human’ and its accompanying sense of agency. This is a tour de force of critical thinking that will prove to be a game changer for the humanities.”
Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Intimations of the Planetary
Part I: The Globe and the Planet
1 Four Theses
2 Conjoined Histories
3 The Planet: A Humanist Category
Part II: The Difficulty of Being Modern
4 The Difficulty of Being Modern
5 Planetary Aspirations: Reading a Suicide in India
6 In the Ruins of an Enduring Fable
Part III: Facing the Planetary
7 Anthropocene Time
8 Toward an Anthropological Clearing
Postscript: The Global Reveals the Planetary: A Conversation with Bruno Latour
Acknowledgments
Notes
IndexREAD LESS
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The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
by Dipesh Chakrabarty
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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. (less)
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Paperback, 296 pages
Published March 22nd 2021 by University of Chicago Press
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Aug 01, 2021Paz rated it liked it
A well-documented discussion on the differences between Anthropocene and Capitalocene and why Chakrabarty prefers to use the former. It's also an important critic of how subaltern studies have somehow missed this discussion. However, the book is a bit repetitive, and it is not a significant novelty from other Chakrabarty's takes published before. (less)
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dr. null set (ABD)
5.0 out of 5 stars Is that the sound of paradigms shifting?
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2021
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Beats me.
Chakrabarty challenges foundational assumptions about historical practice and the meanings of “time” and “experience,” among other abstract nouns. The arguments are lucid, constructive — if not always mellifluous. Entirely worth the effort, however.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read on Climate Change
Reviewed in India on August 18, 2021
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Amazing Sociological work giving the distinction between global and planetary in respect of Climate Change
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for the human world we share
Reviewed in India on September 17, 2021
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One of the finest book by Deepesh Chakrabaty. Students of environment and ecology will like it most
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SAHIL BHAGAT
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful and Informative
Reviewed in India on July 31, 2021
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A thoroughly researched work that invokes deep questions. A great read. Just finished.
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