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Quotes from The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable — Amitav Ghosh

born 1956 India

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Recognition is famously a passage from ignorance to knowledge.

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016)

To want to be ahead, and to celebrate and mythify this endeavor, is indeed one of the most powerful impulses of modernity itself.

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016)

Just as novels have come to be seen as narratives of identity, so too has politics become, for many, a search for personal authenticity, a journey of self-discovery.

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016)

the great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.

The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amitav Ghosh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.