The climate of history in a planetary age / Dipesh Chakrabarty.
The climate of history in a planetary age / Dipesh Chakrabarty.
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
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G 2021/1455
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English
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Physical content
284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction : intimations of the planetary -- The globe and the planet. Four theses -- Conjoined histories -- The planet : a humanist category -- The difficulty of being modern. The difficulty of being modern -- Planetary aspirations : reading a suicide in India -- In the ruins of an enduring fable...
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Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2021.
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Summary
"For the past decade, no thinker has had a greater influence on debates about the meaning of climate change in the humanities than the historian Dipesh Chakrabarty. Climate change, he has argued, upends our ideas about history, modernity, and globalization, and confronts humanists with the kinds of universals that they have been long loath to consi...
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The climate of history in a planetary age / Dipesh Chakrabarty.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ebook version : 9780226733050
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©2021
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G 2021/1455
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74VKa35y7M2b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa35y7M2b
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ISBN
9780226100500
DDC
304.2501
MMS ID
991024410822202626
