Name: Climate of Denial: Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
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Author: MacDuffie, Allen
ISBN: 9781503638938

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Climate of Denial: Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century

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Physical Book

Author

Allen MacDuffie

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Language

English

Pages

296

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781503638938

Synopsis "Climate of Denial: Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century"

Many people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the crisis is not actually happening. This book argues that this structure of feeling has roots that can be traced back to the nineteenth century, when Western culture encountered the profound shock of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin's theory made it increasingly difficult for secular humanists to flatly deny that humans are animals, fully enmeshed in natural systems and processes. But like those of us confronting climate change today, many writers and scientists struggled to integrate its depersonalizing vision into their understanding of the place of humans in the natural order. The result was that the radical environmental implications of The Origin of Species were evaded as soon as they were articulated, abetted by a culture of denial structured by the illusions of capital and empire. In light of the climate emergency, Climate of Denial recontextualizes nineteenth-century texts to offer rich insight into the defensive strategies used--then and now--to avoid confronting the unsettling realities of our situation on this planet.

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