The Climate Swerve
Reflections on Mind, Hope and Survival
Seiten
2017
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-347-9 (ISBN)
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-347-9 (ISBN)
Here, Lifton suggests (in this lucid and moving book that recalls Rachel Carson and Jonathan Schell) was evidence of how we might call upon the human mind - "our greatest evolutionary asset" - to translate a growing species awareness - or "climate swerve" - into action to sustain our habitat and civilisation.
Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, he writes, 'presents us with what may be the most demanding and unique psychological task ever required of humankind,' what he describes as the task of mobilising our imaginative resources toward climate sanity. A profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate change.
Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, he writes, 'presents us with what may be the most demanding and unique psychological task ever required of humankind,' what he describes as the task of mobilising our imaginative resources toward climate sanity. A profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate change.
A pioneer in the field of psychohistory, Robert Jay Lifton is a psychiatrist and author best known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of war and political violence and for his theory of thought reform and cult behavior. He has written over twenty books, including many seminal works in the field such as the National Book Award–winning Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima, Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning The Nazi Doctors, National Book Award–nominated Home from the War, as well as The Climate Swerve, Losing Reality, and Surviving Our Catastrophes (all from The New Press). He has taught at Yale University, Harvard University, and the City University of New York. He lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.02.2018 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 133 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-62097-347-2 / 1620973472 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-62097-347-9 / 9781620973479 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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