Sense of Urgency

How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Rhetoric

AvDebra Hawhee

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-06-08
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226826714

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Debra Hawhee is the McCourtney Professor of Civic Deliberation and professor of English and communication arts and sciences at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author or editor of four books, including Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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“A Sense of Urgency presents four detailed analyses of emerging rhetorical responses to the impact of climate change. . . . But the introduction and conclusion go beyond the case studies by arguing that contemporary environmental concerns now exert pressure on rhetorical scholarship itself.”

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List of Figures1. Introduction: Intensifications2. Glacial Death: Making Future Memory Present3. “In a World Full of ‘Ifs’”: The Felt Time of Youth Climate Rhetors4. Learning Curves: COVID-19, Climate Change, and Mathematical Magnitude5. Presence and Placement in Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest6. Epilogue: FathomingAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex