Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

47 Anmeldelser

4.3

Længde
6T 7M
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Fakta

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.

© 2020 Blackstone Publishing (Lydbog): 9781094068954

Release date

Lydbog: 13. januar 2020

Andre kan også lide...

  1. The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh
  2. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World Patrik Svensson
  3. The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh
  4. Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change Nathaniel Rich
  5. Fury Salman Rushdie
  6. The Peregrine J. A. Baker
  7. Notes on Resistance Noam Chomsky
  8. Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases Michael Chabon
  9. Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet Noam Chomsky
  10. Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change Elizabeth Kolbert
  11. Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene Matthew Schneider-Mayerson (Editor)
  12. Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read Virginia Woolf
  13. In a Free State V. S. Naipaul
  14. China Dream Ma Jian
  15. A Case of Exploding Mangoes Mohammed Hanif
  16. Amnesty Aravind Adiga
  17. An Area of Darkness V.S. Naipaul
  18. Sontag: Her Life and Work Benjamin Moser
  19. Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times Azar Nafisi
  20. The End of the End of the Earth Jonathan Franzen
  21. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir Samantha Power
  22. China in Ten Words Yu Hua
  23. Against Interpretation, and Other Essays Susan Sontag
  24. Miss Jane Brad Watson
  25. Had I Known: Collected Essays Barbara Ehrenreich
  26. Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace Carl Safina
  27. A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India Josy Joseph
  28. Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Susan Sontag
  29. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: A Novel Milan Kundera
  30. Translating Myself and Others Jhumpa Lahiri
  31. Where the Stress Falls: Essays Susan Sontag
  32. Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions Valeria Luiselli
  33. The General in His Labyrinth: A Novel Gabriel García Márquez
  34. What to Read and Why Francine Prose
  35. The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
  36. Man Without a Country Kurt Vonnegut
  37. Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 Michihiko Hachiya, MD
  38. Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape Raja Shehadeh
  39. The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson
  40. The Art of the Novel Milan Kundera
  41. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human Eduardo Kohn
  42. The Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel García Márquez

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Start tilbuddet