THE GREAT DERANGEMENT

Title	THE GREAT DERANGEMENT - CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE UNTHINKABLE
Author	AMITAV GOSH
Publisher	PENGUIN
Subject	NON FICTION
Age Group	Adult
Series
Language	English
Available	YES

	ARE WE DERANGED? One of Indiaâ??s greatest writers, Amitav Ghosh, argues that future generations may well think so. How else can we explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In this groundbreaking return to non-fiction, Ghosh examines our inabilityâ??at the level of literature, history and politicsâ??to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of todayâ??s climate events makes them peculiarly resistant to the contemporary imagination. In fiction, hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel and are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications. Ghosh suggests that politics, much like literature, has become a matt er of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit culture and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existenceâ??a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all forms. The Great Derangement serves as a brilliant writerâ??s summons to confront the most urgent task of our time.
Publisher	Penguin UK
ISBN	9789386057433
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