num_pages: 192
description: With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next.Originally published in 2004, now with a new foreword and afterword, Solnit’s influential book shines a light into the darkness of our time in an unforgettable new edition.
language: English
title: Hope in the Dark
titlecomplete: Hope in the Dark
genres: Audiobook, Essays, Environment, Politics, Social Justice, Philosophy, Activism, Feminism, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 9525
publisher: Canongate Books Ltd