Climate of History in a Planetary Age
Climate of History in a Planetary Age For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. The burden of The…
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Climate of History in a Planetary Age
For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. 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. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization.
Featuring wide-ranging excursions into historical and philosophical literatures, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age boldly This distinction is central to Chakrabarty's work-the globe is a human-centric construction, while a planetary perspective intentionally decenters the human.