A sense of urgency : how the climate crisis is changing rhetoric / Debra Hawhee.
| Author/creator | Hawhee, Debra author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023. |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | List of figures -- 1. Introduction: Intensifications -- 2. Glacial death: making future memory present -- 3. "In a world full of 'ifs'": the felt time of youth climate rhetors -- 4. Learning curves: COVID-19, climate change, and mathematical magnitude -- 5. Presence and placement in Maya Lin's Ghost Forest -- 6. Epilogue: Fathoming -- Acknowledgments --Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Abstract | A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician. Why is it difficult to talk about climate change? Debra Hawhee argues that contemporary rhetoric relies on classical assumptions about humanity and history that cannot conceive of the present crisis. How do we talk about an unprecedented future or represent planetary interests without privileging our own species? A Sense of Urgency explores four emerging answers, their sheer novelty a record of both the devastation and possible futures of climate change. In developing the arts of magnitude, presence, witness, and feeling, A Sense of Urgency invites us to imagine new ways of thinking with our imperiled planet. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource title from PDF title page; (DeGruyter, viewed on June 27, 2023). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Hawhee, Debra. Sense of urgency. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023 9780226826714 |
| Issued in other form | Original 9780226826714 0226826716 9780226826783 0226826783 |
| LCCN | 2022051301 |
| ISBN | 0226826775 |
| ISBN | 9780226826776 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (hardcover) |
| Stock number | 9780226826776 BiblioVault |
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