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A sense of urgency : how the climate crisis is changing rhetoric / Debra Hawhee

Hawhee, Debra [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2023]

223 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme

Englisch

Introduction -- Glacial death -- "In a world full of 'ifs'" -- Learning curves -- Presence and placement in Maya Lin's Ghost forest -- Epilogue.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: A Sense of Urgency / Hawhee, Debra [GNDNR:140318208] (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-226-82671-4 (cloth); 978-0-226-82678-3 (paperback)

978-0-226-82677-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2022051301

OCoLC: 1385301083     

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.7208/chiicago/9780226826776.001.0001

QC902.9

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LOC-SH: Climatic changes -- Social aspects ; Crises -- Social aspects ; Rhetoric

"Unchecked climate change affects nearly everything on Earth, including the way humans communicate. In A Sense of Urgency, Debra Hawhee focuses our attention on new communication strategies that are emerging around the global climate crisis. At the heart of the story Hawhee tells are the challenges that our ecological future poses to rhetoric, and how those challenges demand that we learn to privilege more than our pasts and ourselves. The challenges of imagining futures under dramatically different climate conditions, of communicating climate science, and of offsetting human privilege all expose the limits of rhetoric as conceived by ancient Greek and Roman thinkers. The most glaring limit is the prominence those thinkers granted to precedent. When it comes to the climate crisis, precedent is not up to the task of addressing the problem at hand. Climate activists, scientists, artists, and scholars are trying to overcome this limitation, and A Sense of Urgency examines four departures from rhetoric's playbook that can be helpful in this struggle. Each of these departures presents new resources and different means of intensification in response to situations with few to no precedents. For Hawhee, thinking with these departures, and the attendant rhetorical strategies, can help people fathom both what is happening and what will happen if action is not taken. In this way, A Sense of Urgency is an indispensable guide in our search for new imaginative pathways"--