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Κλιματική αλλαγή και ιστορία: Τέσσερις θέσεις
Όταν ο Ντιπές Τσακραμπάρτι βρέθηκε αντιμέτωπος με την πρόκληση της ανθρωπογενούς κλιματικής αλλαγής, διαπίστωσε ότι η μακρά του θητεία στη μεταποικιακή και τη μαρξιστική σκέψη δεν επαρκούσε για να κατανοήσει τη νέα πραγματικότητα. Στο δοκίμιό του Κλιματική αλλαγή και Ιστορία: Τέσσερις θέσεις, που δημοσιεύτηκε το 2009 και εξακολουθεί να προκαλεί έντονες συζητήσεις, ο ινδός ιστορικός υποστηρίζει ότι η έλευση της Ανθρωπόκαινου –μιας νέας εποχής που ο άνθρωπος λειτουργεί και ως γεωλογικός παράγοντας– δοκιμάζει τα ίδια τα όρια της ιστορικής κατανόησης. Για να συλλάβει την εξελισσόμενη πλανητική κρίση, η ιστορική επιστήμη οφείλει να συνδέσει την Ιστορία της παγκοσμιοποίησης και της νεωτερικότητας με τη Βαθιά Ιστορία του ανθρώπινου είδους.
Οι Τέσσερις θέσεις αποτελούν μία από τις σημαντικότερες παρεμβάσεις στη φιλοσοφία της Ιστορίας στον αιώνα μας, κατοχυρώνοντας την κλιματική αλλαγή ως τον νέο ορίζοντα του μέλλοντός μας.
Οι Τέσσερις θέσεις αποτελούν μία από τις σημαντικότερες παρεμβάσεις στη φιλοσοφία της Ιστορίας στον αιώνα μας, κατοχυρώνοντας την κλιματική αλλαγή ως τον νέο ορίζοντα του μέλλοντός μας.
112 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
Dipesh Chakrabarty
49 books72 followersDipesh Chakrabarty (b. 1948) is a Bengali historian who has also made contributions to postcolonial theory and subaltern studies.
He attended Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, where he received his undergraduate degree in physics. He also received a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Later he moved on to the Australian National University in Canberra, from where he earned a PhD in history.
He is currently the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago. He was a visiting faculty at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Chakrabarty also serves as a contributing editor for Public Culture, an academic journal published by Duke University Press.
He was a member of the Subaltern Studies collective. He has recently made important contributions to the intersections between history and postcolonial theory (Provincializing Europe [PE]), which continues and revises his earlier historical work on working-class history in Bengal (Rethinking Working-Class History). PE adds considerably to the debate of how postcolonial discourse engages in the writing of history (e.g., Robert J. C. Young's "White Mythologies"), critiquing historicism, which is intimately related to the West's notion of linear time. Chakrabarty argues that Western historiography's historicism universalizes liberalism, projecting it to all ends of the map. He suggests that, under the rubric of historicism, the end-goal of every society is to develop towards nationalism.
In 2011 he received an Honorary degree from the University of Antwerp.
He attended Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, where he received his undergraduate degree in physics. He also received a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Later he moved on to the Australian National University in Canberra, from where he earned a PhD in history.
He is currently the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College at the University of Chicago. He was a visiting faculty at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Chakrabarty also serves as a contributing editor for Public Culture, an academic journal published by Duke University Press.
He was a member of the Subaltern Studies collective. He has recently made important contributions to the intersections between history and postcolonial theory (Provincializing Europe [PE]), which continues and revises his earlier historical work on working-class history in Bengal (Rethinking Working-Class History). PE adds considerably to the debate of how postcolonial discourse engages in the writing of history (e.g., Robert J. C. Young's "White Mythologies"), critiquing historicism, which is intimately related to the West's notion of linear time. Chakrabarty argues that Western historiography's historicism universalizes liberalism, projecting it to all ends of the map. He suggests that, under the rubric of historicism, the end-goal of every society is to develop towards nationalism.
In 2011 he received an Honorary degree from the University of Antwerp.
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