Book ID: CBB369796069

The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (2021)

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Chakrabarty, Dipesh (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 293
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Cristina Baldacci
Lucio De Capitani
Omodeo, Pietro Daniel
Peter Engelke
Kristen Wehner
Shaul Bassi
Concepts
Anthropocene
Environmental history
Climate change
Science and society
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
History as a discipline; chronology; study of the past
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Modern
Early modern
Medieval
Ancient
Places
Venice (Italy)
Italy
Australia
Sardinia
Great Plains (North America)
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