One Planet, Many Worlds – The Climate Parallax

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By Dipesh Chakrabarty

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One Planet, Many Worlds – The Climate Parallax by Dipesh Chakrabarty delves into the intertwined nature of climate change, history, and humanity's role in reshaping the planet. The book explores how Earth's geological and human histories intersect, urging readers to rethink our impact on a changing world. It presents a multi-dimensional perspective on climate issues, weaving in cultural, environmental, and philosophical insights.
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You might enjoy this book if you are interested in understanding how climate change is reshaping our perception of the world, blending insights from history, science, and politics. It offers a thought-provoking exploration of how diverse cultures and societies experience and conceptualise the changing climate from different perspectives.

"The book opens with a discussion of the pandemic, then investigates the modern origins of the separation between "natural" and "human" histories, and what may be at stake in that separation. Does having different worlds make it difficult for humans to deal with a planet that is one?"--

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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, One Planet, Many Worlds – The Climate Parallax, Chakrabarty continues to explore the temporal and intellectual fault lines that mark the collapse of the global and the planetary in human history.

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One Planet, Many Worlds – The Climate Parallax by Dipesh Chakrabarty is noted for its engaging and thoughtful prose, effectively weaving together various disciplines to explore critical global and planetary issues. Reviewers praise the book for its careful philosophical examination and complex political engagement. It is described as energising, thoughtful, and deserving of rereading, offering insights into the tensions between global perspectives and planetary considerations.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781684581573

Publisher: Brandeis University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 July 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Brandeis University Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

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Width: 5.0mm

Height: 8.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, a faculty fellow of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, an associate of the Department of English, and by courtesy, a faculty member in the Law School. He is a founding member of the editorial collective of Subaltern Studies, consulting editor of Critical Inquiry, founding editor of Postcolonial Studies, and has served on the editorial boards of the American Historical Review and Public Culture. His many books include The Crises of Civilization, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age, and Provincializing Europe.