{"product_id":"9798888904343","title":"Learning to Live in the Dark : Essays in a Time of Catastrophe","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these hard-hitting and deeply personal essays, Nation writer and veteran activist Wen Stephenson traces his search for resolve in the face of our converging climate and political catastrophes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter three decades of failed international efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change, progressive visions of a better world are now increasingly circumscribed by ecological and social breakdown. The geophysical forces unleashed by carbon-fueled global heating have converged with forms of political nihilism not seen since the rise of fascism in the 20th century. For many, despair has become the only honest response.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFaced with the intellectual, moral, and spiritual abyss created by these intersecting crises, Stephenson reaches back to the ideas of mid 20th-century thinkers Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Albert Camus, and Frantz Fanon, along with contemporary writers engaged in the climate-justice struggle. Throughout, he poses a question that resonates for many on the left today: If nothing short of revolution can salvage the possibility of a better world, and yet if a viable revolutionary-left politics is nowhere on the horizon, then what does a life of radical commitment look like in the shadow of catastrophes that will not wait?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLearning to Live in the Dark answers not with fatalism or any cheap hope, but with something sturdier: a resolve and solidarity as real as the dark itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49887080775928,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":88.12,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9798888904343-1.jpg?v=1783832230","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9798888904343","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}