Climate Change and the Unthinkable Amitav Ghosh is a timely and compelling book about our inability to truly grasp climate change. The author explores how literature, history, and politics fall short in depicting and addressing the scale and impact of the climate crisis.
Ghosh emphasizes that extreme weather events seem too unlikely for serious literary fictions and therefore are often left out. He also shows that the history of the carbon economy is complex and contradictory, and that politics is increasingly becoming a personal moral issue rather than collective action.
Description
Climate change and the associated crisis put our imagination and thinking models to the test. Amitav Ghosh argues that fiction is essential to envision new forms of human existence in this era. His book calls for a shared confrontation with the urgent challenges of our time.
Product specifications
- Author: Amitav Ghosh
- Series: Berlin Family Lectures
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Imprint: University of Chicago Press
- Publication date: 2017-07-24
- Number of pages: 176
- ISBN: 9780226526812
- Subject: Literature: history and criticism
- BISAC: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
About the author
Amitav Ghosh is an award-winning novelist and essayist, known for, among others, The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, and the Ibis trilogy. His work combines literary quality with in-depth criticism of history and climate change.