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Author: Dale Jamieson Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199337675 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 289
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From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do. Centered in philosophy, the volume also treats the scientific, historical, economic, and political dimensions of climate change. Our failure to prevent or even to respond significantly to climate change, Jamieson argues, reflects the impoverishment of our systems of practical reason, the paralysis of our politics, and the limits of our cognitive and affective capacities. The climate change that is underway is remaking the world in such a way that familiar comforts, places, and ways of life will disappear in years or decades rather than centuries. Climate change also threatens our sense of meaning, since it is difficult to believe that our individual actions matter. The challenges that climate change presents go beyond the resources of common sense morality -- it can be hard to view such everyday acts as driving and flying as presenting moral problems. Yet there is much that we can do to slow climate change, to adapt to it and restore a sense of agency while living meaningful lives in a changing world.
Author: Robert Jay Lifton Publisher: ISBN: 9780674445390 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 154
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An anthology whose theme is the insanity of war, this volume draws on the literature of the past twenty-five hundred years--poets from Sappho to Robert Lowell, historians from Thucydides to Edward Thompson, and dreamers from St. John the Divine to Bob Dylan
Author: Dale Jamieson Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199337675 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do. Centered in philosophy, the volume also treats the scientific, historical, economic, and political dimensions of climate change. Our failure to prevent or even to respond significantly to climate change, Jamieson argues, reflects the impoverishment of our systems of practical reason, the paralysis of our politics, and the limits of our cognitive and affective capacities. The climate change that is underway is remaking the world in such a way that familiar comforts, places, and ways of life will disappear in years or decades rather than centuries. Climate change also threatens our sense of meaning, since it is difficult to believe that our individual actions matter. The challenges that climate change presents go beyond the resources of common sense morality -- it can be hard to view such everyday acts as driving and flying as presenting moral problems. Yet there is much that we can do to slow climate change, to adapt to it and restore a sense of agency while living meaningful lives in a changing world.
Author: Colm Tóibín Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743229444 Category : American literature Languages : en Pages : 274
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An award-winning writer examines the life and work of some of the greatest authors of the past two centuries, figures whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives. Toibin looks both at writers forced to disguise their true experience on the page, and at readers who find solace and sexual identity by reading between the lines.
Author: Theodore Roethke Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307760472 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 289
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This paperback edition contains the complete text of Roethke's seven published volumes in addition to sixteen previously uncollected poems. Included are his Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winners The Walking, Words for the Wind, and The Far Field. These two hundred poems demonstrate the variety of Roethke's themes and styles, the comic and serious sides of his temperament, and his breakthroughs in the use of language. Together they document the development of an extraordinary creative source of American poetry.
Author: Dakota Banks Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061892696 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
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Three hundred years ago, she sold her soul to a demon. Now she wants it back. For centuries, the woman calling herself Maliha Crayne has lived a second life—as an assassin for the malevolent creature who owns her soul. A haunted killer with the blood of countless victims on her hands, she has finally discovered a way to nullify the demonic pact that chains her: If she saves a life for every one she has taken, she will be free. But if she fails, her punishments will be unspeakable, unendurable . . . and neverending.
Author: Alisse Waterston Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1487539134 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 160
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What will become of us in these trying times? How will we pass the time that we have on earth? In gorgeously rendered graphic form, Light in Dark Times invites readers to consider these questions by exploring the political catastrophes and moral disasters of the past and present, revealing issues that beg to be studied, understood, confronted, and resisted. A profound work of anthropology and art, this book is for anyone yearning to understand the darkness and hoping to hold onto the light. It is a powerful story of encounters with writers, philosophers, activists, and anthropologists whose words are as meaningful today as they were during the times in which they were written. This book is at once a lament over the darkness of our times, an affirmation of the value of knowledge and introspection, and a consideration of truth, lies, and the dangers of the trivial. In a time when many of us struggle with the feeling that we cannot do enough to change the course of the future, this book is a call to action, asking us to envision and create an alternative world from the one in which we now live. Light in Dark Times is beautiful to look at and to hold – an exquisite work of art that is lively, informative, enlightening, deeply moving, and inspiring.
Author: Larry Watson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0671551647 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 257
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Peter, a teacher at Minnesota's Wanekia High School, discovers a dark side to his nature when he finds himself morbidly fascinated with the reactions of his community to the murders of three teenage girls.
Author: Adam Hochschild Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520969677 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 296
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In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic, from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves, from Mark Twain to John McPhee, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written, what bookshelves tell us about their owners, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations. With the skills of a journalist, the knowledge of a historian, and the heart of an activist, Hochschild shares the stories of people who took a stand against despotism, spoke out against unjust wars and government surveillance, and dared to dream of a better and more just world.
Author: Hannah Arendt Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780156588904 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 292
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Collection of essays which present portraits of individuals ranging from Rosa Luxemburg to Pope John XXIII who the author believes have illuminated "dark times."
Author: Teju Cole Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022664135X Category : ART Languages : en Pages : 285
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After Caravaggio -- Elegies. Room 406; Mama's shroud; Four elegies; two elegies; A letter ot John Berger; A quartet for Edward Said -- Shadows. Gossamer world : on Santu Mofokeng; An incantation for Marie Cosindas; Pictures in the aftermath; Shattered glass; What does it mean to look at this?; A crime scene at the border; Shadow cabinet : on Kerry James Marshall; Nighted color : on Lorna Simpson; The blackness of the panther; Restoring the darkness -- Coming to our senses. Experience; Epiphany; Ethics -- In a dark time. A time for refusal; Resist, refuse; Through the door; Passages north; On carrying and being carried -- Epilogue. Black paper.
Author: Dale Jamieson
Author: Robert Jay Lifton
Author: Dale Jamieson
Author: Colm Tóibín
Author: Theodore Roethke
Author: Dakota Banks
Author: Alisse Waterston
Author: Larry Watson
Author: Adam Hochschild
Author: Hannah Arendt
Author: Teju Cole