Primus Books One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax

For Chakrabarty, Global Does Not Refer To The Entirety Of The World, But Rather To A Particular Mode Of Thought. In Critiquing The Global, Chakrabarty Offers Another Mode Of Thinking That Can Perhaps Provide The Philosophical Grounding For A Truly Ecological Approach. The Human Becomes Only One Node Within A Much More Complex And Multivalent System Of Actors, Both Human And NonHuman. Green European Journal This Book Provides A ThoughtProvoking, Complex Discussion Of How Climate Change Challenges The Humanities, History, And The Human Sense Of Time But Presupposes A Command Of Intellectual History Overall, Chakrabarty Outlines The Overlapping Of Different Histories Once Thought To Be Distinct. The Planet Itself, He Argues, Is A Humanist Category. Choice Chakrabarty Is A Prominent Figure In Postcolonial Historiography, And His Thinking About A Multiplicity Of Worlds Undoubtedly Has Overtones Of The Late20ThCentury Concept Of First,Second And ThirdWorld Countries. Of All The Books IVe Discussed Here In 2023, One Planet, Many Worlds Is The One That I Expect To Reread In The New Year. Scott Mclemee In The Chronicle Of Higher Education 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.