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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.
作者简介
Amitav Ghosh is an award-winning novelist and essayist whose books include The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and the Ibis Trilogy: Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire.
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评分这本书让我回到许多年前刚开始读理论的年纪，也是这样的诗意与意蕴丰富的文笔～基于谱系学的方法，横跨文学、科学、社会历史政治，探讨climate change as story, history and politics～十分有趣的是书里引了很多中国材料，ecological studies到最后都是social and political ecology的问题～那么如何超越民族国家的叙事呢？唯有宗教～
评分讲气候变化与文学与历史与政治的关系。一再强调气候问题的同时，又仿佛与气候问题没有关联。只是在为如何重新看或者写或者认识或者体验文学，历史，政治提供新的角度与材料。
评分讲气候变化与文学与历史与政治的关系。一再强调气候问题的同时，又仿佛与气候问题没有关联。只是在为如何重新看或者写或者认识或者体验文学，历史，政治提供新的角度与材料。
评分第一部分不错。
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