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SUMMARY:Book Talk: "Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress"
DESCRIPTION:Roy Scranton discusses his new book Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress with Andrew Cole \nExtreme heat\, fires\, floods\, and storms are transforming our planet. Instead of serious responses from world leaders\, we get divisive politics and false solutions that offer more of the same: more capitalism\, more complexity\, more “progress.” \nThe impasse we face is not only political and institutional\, but cognitive\, existential\, and narrative. We’re incapable of grasping the scale\, speed\, and impact of global warming. Our brains can’t make sense of how radically our world is changing and we optimistically cling to a civilizational narrative that promises a better tomorrow if we just keep doing what we’re doing. \nRoy Scranton argues it is well past time to free ourselves from our dangerous and dogmatic faith in progress. Such unwarranted optimism will only accelerate our collective disintegration. If we want to have any hope at all for the future\, it must be grounded in a recognition of human limits—a view Scranton calls ethical pessimism. \nDrawing from psychology\, philosophy\, history\, and politics\, as well as film\, literature\, and personal experience\, Scranton describes the challenges we face in making sense of our predicament\, from problems in communication to questions of justice\, from the inherent biases in human perception to the difficulties of empirical knowledge. What emerges is a challenging but ultimately hopeful proposition: if we have the courage to accept our limits\, we may find a way to embrace our unknowable future. \nRoy Scranton is the author of several books\, including Learning to Die in the Anthropocene\, Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature\, and the novel War Porn. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow\, Scranton teaches at the University of Notre Dame\, where he directs the Environmental Humanities Initiative. \nAndrew Cole is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature in the Department of English at Princeton University. His recent work focuses on the built environment\, architecture\, utopian planning\, and the dialectic of space in thinkers from Hegel to Fanon. His next book is Being and Space. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Department of English\, Princeton’s Humanities Council\, and Labyrinth Books.
URL:https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/book-talk-impasse-climate-change-and-the-limits-of-progress/
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