One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)

One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)

Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty
$24.95
Publication Date: July 13th, 2023
Publisher:
Brandeis University Press
ISBN:
9781684581573
Pages:
144
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Description

A historian offers a unique look at the pandemic, climate change, and the human versus nonhuman.
 
Climate change represents a deep conundrum for humans. It is difficult for humans to give up the unequal and yet accelerating pursuit of a good life based on an insatiable appetite for energy sourced mainly from fossil fuel. But the same pursuit, scientists insist, damages the geobiological system that supports the existence of interrelated forms of life, including ours, on this planet. The planet, seen thus, is one. The global sway of financial and extractive capital connects humans technologically, but they remain divided along multiple axes of inequality. Their worlds are many and their politics still global rather than planetary. In the narrative presented here, Chakrabarty continues to explore the temporal and intellectual fault lines that mark the collapse of the global and the planetary in human history.
 

About the Author

  Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the recipient of the 2014 Toynbee Prize, which is given to a distinguished practitioner of global history.

Praise for One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University)

“One Planet, Many Worlds displays the same critical ingenuity, analytical subtlety, polymathic erudition, and gravitas that one has come to expect from Chakrabarty. Those who engage its arguments attentively, even in dissent, will come away energized by the encounter with a strenuous and self-exacting thinker capable of ranging back and forth across a vertiginous range of disciplines from geology to phenomenology.”
— Lawrence Buell, Harvard University, author of Writing for an Endangered World

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