num_pages: 292
description: For the past decade historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change he argues upends long-standing ideas of history modernity and globalization. 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 reconsiderfrom the changed nature of human agency to a new acceptance of universals.Chakrabarty argues that we must see ourselves from two perspectives at the planetary and the global. This distinction is central to Chakrabartys workthe globe is a human-centric construction while a planetary perspective intentionally decenters the human. Featuring wide-ranging excursions into historical and philosophical literatures The Climate of History in a Planetary Age boldly considers how to frame the human condition in troubled times. As we open ourselves to the implications of the Anthropocene few writers are as likely as Chakrabarty to shape our understanding of the best way forward.
language: English
title: The Climate of History in a Planetary Age
publisher: University of Chicago Press