Baucom History 4° Celsius

Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1203-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 150 Seiten

Reihe: Theory in Forms

Ian Baucom puts black studies into conversation with climate change, outlining how the ongoing concerns of critical race, diaspora, and postcolonial studies are crucial to understanding the Anthropocene and vice versa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baucom, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
1. Of Forces and Forcings 1
2. History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method 35
3. The View from the Shore 73
Coda. The Youngest Day 110
Notes 119
Bibliography 131
Index 137

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Baucom is Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History and coeditor of Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain, both also published by Duke University Press.