Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He is the recipient of the 2014 Toynbee Prize, which is given to a distinguished practitioner of global history.

“With his new masterwork, Chakrabarty confirms that he is one of the most creative and philosophically-minded historians writing today. The oppositions he proposes between the global of globalization and the global of global warming, between the world and the planet, between sustainability and habitability are illuminating and effective for thinking and acting through our highly uncertain and disoriented times.”

• Introduction: Intimations of the PlanetaryPart I: The Globe and the Planet1 Four Theses2 Conjoined Histories3 The Planet: A Humanist CategoryPart II: The Difficulty of Being Modern4 The Difficulty of Being Modern5 Planetary Aspirations: Reading a Suicide in India6 In the Ruins of an Enduring FablePart III: Facing the Planetary7 Anthropocene Time8 Toward an Anthropological ClearingPostscript: The Global Reveals the Planetary: A Conversation with Bruno LatourAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He is the recipient of the 2014 Toynbee Prize, which is given to a distinguished practitioner of global history.

“With his new masterwork, Chakrabarty confirms that he is one of the most creative and philosophically-minded historians writing today. The oppositions he proposes between the global of globalization and the global of global warming, between the world and the planet, between sustainability and habitability are illuminating and effective for thinking and acting through our highly uncertain and disoriented times.”

• Introduction: Intimations of the PlanetaryPart I: The Globe and the Planet1 Four Theses2 Conjoined Histories3 The Planet: A Humanist CategoryPart II: The Difficulty of Being Modern4 The Difficulty of Being Modern5 Planetary Aspirations: Reading a Suicide in India6 In the Ruins of an Enduring FablePart III: Facing the Planetary7 Anthropocene Time8 Toward an Anthropological ClearingPostscript: The Global Reveals the Planetary: A Conversation with Bruno LatourAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex