The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

In this book, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues that climate change necessitates a dual perspective in writing history: the global, which centers on human activities, and the planetary, which de-centers the human.

Chakrabarty contends that the Anthropocene era demands a reevaluation of human agency, ethics, and the relationship between human and natural histories.

The book features extensive excursions into historical and philosophical literatures to frame the human condition in the context of climate change and the Anthropocene, proposing new ways to think about the human condition and its future.