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vls/2603nrwcece.visuallibrary.netvdThegreat derangementclimate change and the unthinkableGhosh, AmitavauttextbookChicagoLondonThe University of Chicago Press20172017Paperback editionmonographiceng196 SeitenAre 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 inabilityat the level of literature, history, and politicsto grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of todays 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 existencea task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writers summons to confront the most urgent task of our time.Amitav GhoshEnglischLiteraturKlimaänderung <Motiv>BSZ496985442978-0-226-52681-20-226-52681-X978-0-226-32303-9HT019765331TheRandy L. and Melvin R. Berlin family lecturesOnline-Ausgabe, eBook978-0-226-32317-65000000102018/38206/A00001040FS/AR 23100 G4276101angp33402.g7862018080320200505147410601rda https://ce.visuallibrary.net//domainresource/static/graphics/connectors/viewerLogo.gif http://193.30.112.129:83/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=ICS%3D147410601+X0001 https://ce.visuallibrary.net/id/1055634 https://ce.visuallibrary.net/i3f/v20/1055634/manifest https://ce.visuallibrary.net/proto_ftsearch/1055634