On Un/Certainty
The Uses of Doubt in Dangerous Times
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2026
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We live in uncertain times. But what does this uncertainty actually mean to our ability to act?
In an era where politicians, CEOs, and pundits reflexively invoke "uncertain times" to explain everything from pandemic responses to climate inaction, journalist and philosopher Natasha Lennard offers a radical intervention: she exposes how our obsession with uncertainty masks the violent certainties that actually organize our world.
Lennard combines rigorous philosophical analysis with frontline reporting, personal reflection, and urgent political intervention. The book tackles contemporary flashpoints through this philosophical lens: What the crisis in our constant talk of 'crisis' actually means. How entrenched assumptions about gendered experience are weaponized to harass the most vulnerable. How the treatment of borders as a site of imagined security requiring violent maintenance threatens our collective flourishing. Looking to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, alongside other thinkers rarely put in conversation together, Lennard addresses the nature of certainty itself, identity and ideology, to show that much of this uncertainty is calculated and used to undermine our ability to act.
On Un/Certainty transforms philosophical insight into political action, offering readers not just analysis but hope-and the conceptual tools to make that hope concrete.
In an era where politicians, CEOs, and pundits reflexively invoke "uncertain times" to explain everything from pandemic responses to climate inaction, journalist and philosopher Natasha Lennard offers a radical intervention: she exposes how our obsession with uncertainty masks the violent certainties that actually organize our world.
Lennard combines rigorous philosophical analysis with frontline reporting, personal reflection, and urgent political intervention. The book tackles contemporary flashpoints through this philosophical lens: What the crisis in our constant talk of 'crisis' actually means. How entrenched assumptions about gendered experience are weaponized to harass the most vulnerable. How the treatment of borders as a site of imagined security requiring violent maintenance threatens our collective flourishing. Looking to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, alongside other thinkers rarely put in conversation together, Lennard addresses the nature of certainty itself, identity and ideology, to show that much of this uncertainty is calculated and used to undermine our ability to act.
On Un/Certainty transforms philosophical insight into political action, offering readers not just analysis but hope-and the conceptual tools to make that hope concrete.
Natasha Lennard is a British-born, Brooklyn-based writer. A leading voice on the American left since Occupy Wall Street, she is a columnist for The Intercept, and her work has appeared in The Nation, Bookforum, Dissent, and the New York Times, among others. She teaches critical journalism at the New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of Violence (with Brad Evans), and Being Numerous.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.10.2026 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 250 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
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| ISBN-13 | 9781804295618 / 9781804295618 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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