Hope in the Dark: Canongate Canons
Autor Rebecca Solniten Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 sep 2016
Noua ediție a volumului Hope in the Dark, publicată în seria Canongate Canons, vine cu o structură revizuită ce include o introducere inedită despre originile scrierii și un postfață esențial pentru înțelegerea activismului în contextul incertitudinii globale post-2016. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Rebecca Solnit recalibrează conceptul de speranță: nu ca pe un optimism naiv, ci ca pe o formă de rezistență politică și un angajament de a acționa atunci când viitorul rămâne necunoscut. Considerăm că forța acestui text rezidă în documentarea victoriilor subtile, adesea indirecte, ale mișcărilor sociale, pe care istoria oficială tinde să le ignore. Această perspectivă reprezintă o alternativă pragmatică la Revolutionary Hope in a Time of Crisis de Maša Mrovlje pentru cursurile de științe politice și sociologie. În timp ce volumul coordonat de Mrovlje explorează speranța prin prisma teoriilor academice interdisciplinare, Hope in the Dark are avantajul unei abordări ancorate în experiența directă a activismului de teren, oferind un ghid de supraviețuire psihologică pentru cei implicați în schimbarea socială. Solnit reușește să demonstreze că disperarea este, în esență, o formă de aroganță — o încredere nejustificată că știm exact ce urmează să se întâmple. În contextul operei sale, volumul se situează între analiza dezastrelor și a solidarității din A Paradise Built in Hell și critica socială tăioasă din Men Explain Things to Me. Dacă în River of Shadows autoarea explora inovația tehnologică și percepția timpului, aici ea aplică aceeași rigoare istorică asupra mișcărilor politice, argumentând că schimbarea majoră pornește adesea din zonele de umbră, prin acțiuni ale căror consecințe devin vizibile abia după decenii.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1782119078
Pagini: 180
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Canongate Books Ltd
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Despre autor
Rebecca Solnit (n. 1961) este o scriitoare, istoric și activistă americană de renume, a cărei operă explorează intersecția dintre feminism, politică, mediu și istorie culturală. Cu peste optsprezece volume publicate, Solnit a devenit o voce de referință în gândirea critică contemporană. A fost distinsă cu premii prestigioase, printre care National Book Critics Circle Award și o bursă Guggenheim. Este colaboratoare constantă a publicațiilor Harper's și The Guardian, fiind recunoscută pentru capacitatea de a sintetiza teme complexe în eseuri accesibile și profunde.
Descriere
At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope.
This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq. Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. Tracing the footsteps of the last century's thinkers - including Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel - Solnit conjures a timeless vision of cause and effect that will light our way through the dark, and lead us to profound and effective political engagement.
Recenzii
—The New Yorker
"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium. Rebecca Solnit writes as independently as Orwell; she's a great muralist, a Diego Rivera of words. Literary and progressive America is in a Solnit moment, which given her endless talent should last a very long time."
—Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Deep Economy
“Hope In the Dark changed my life. During a period of pervasive cynicism and political despair, the first edition of this book provided me with a model for activist engagement that I have held dear ever since. Today, as movements for climate, racial, and economic justice sweep the globe, its message is more relevant than ever. In her inimitable and inspiring way, Solnit reminds us that social change follows an unpredictable path. Despite all the obstacles, we must not lose sight of the fact that profound transformation is possible. This book’s compact size belies its true power. It provides succor and sustenance, fuel and fire, for those fighting for a more just world.”
—Astra Taylor, author, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
“Rebecca Solnit is a national literary treasure: a passionate, close-to-the-ground reporter with the soul and voice of a philosopher-poet. And, unlike so many who write about the great injustices of this world, she is an optimist, whose faith is deeply grounded in a knowledge of history. This is a book to give you not just hope but zest for the battles ahead.”
—Adam Hochschild, author, King Leopold’s Ghost
“Time and again she comes running towards you with a bunch of hopes she has found and picked in the undergrowth of the times we are living. And you remember that hope is not a guarantee for tomorrow, but a detonator of energy for action today.”
—John Berger, author, Ways of Seeing
"A slim, potent book penned in the wake of the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq; a book that has grown only more relevant and poignant in the decade since."
—Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
Praise for earlier editions:
“Seemingly lost in the woods of deceit and banality, bereft of hope, we are confronted by Rebecca Solnit and her astonishing flashlight. In a jewel of a book that is poetic in substance as well as style, she reveals where we were, where we are and the step-by-step advances that have been made in human rights, as we stubbornly stumble out of the darkness.”
—Studs Terkel
“In this inspired meditation on the very nature of action and the reasons one thing leads to another, Rebecca Solnit, with her customary intellectual penetration, freshness of expression, and high elegance, finds new springs of hope in dark times.”
—Jonathan Schell
“In this extraordinary book, Rebecca Solnit’s prose grows poetic wings that enable her to soar to a visionary height. The good news that she brings back is that our struggles—with persistence and courage—are indeed the seeds of kindness.”
—Mike Davis
“Move over Joan Didion...Solnit is who Susan Sontag might have become if Sontag had never forsaken California for Manhattan.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Can you imagine a cross between Joan Rivers and Simone de Beauvoir? I didn’t think so, but no likelier hybrid comes to mind.... Solnit is the real activist deal: the type who gets arrested at nuclear test sites and mans the barricades at the World Trade Organization demonstrations in Seattle. She’s also the real freelance intellectual deal: the much rarer type who earns her living generating reams of thoughtful, wide-ranging nonfiction.”
—Newsday
"This is the ultimate 'feel-good' book for exhausted campaigners and activists . . . an intensely personal account, a meditation on activism and hope."
—The Guardian
“An inspired observer and passionate historian, [Solnit] is one of the most creative, penetrating, and eloquent cultural critics writing today. In her most personal critique to date, she reflects on the crucial, often underrated accomplishments of grassroots activists. Solnit contemplates such well-studied revolutions as the American civil rights movement and the fall of the Berlin Wall, but more significantly she reflects on such recent events as successful protests against nuclear testing in Nevada, the Zapatista uprising, the anti-corporate globalization movement, the “unprecedented global wave of protest” against the war in Iraq, and such hopeful ecological successes as the return of wolves to Yellowstone and the restoration of the Los Angeles River. Solnit’s rousing celebration of people who work tirelessly behind the scenes and courageously on the streets for justice and environmental health harmonizes beautifully with Studs Terkel’s Hope Dies Last, and helps readers understand more clearly where we stand as individuals, as Americans, and as citizens of the world.”
—Donna Seaman, Booklist
“This slim volume, to quote the author’s own reflections on the quincentennial of Columbus’s discovery of America, is “a zigzag trail of encounters, reactions, and realizations.” Solnit, recent winner of an NBCC award for criticism for River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, rambles from place to place and topic to topic in a discursive examination of the current state of leftist protest and activism. Unwilling to accept the bleak, almost apocalyptic worldview of many of her progressive counterparts, Solnit celebrates the hope and optimism that recent episodes reveal. She points to the resurrection of indigenous causes represented by Zapatismo, the WTO protests in Seattle and Cancun and the worldwide protests against the U.S.-led war in Iraq, and other smaller, more marginal protests. Solnit argues persuasively that engaged, thoughtful dissent is far healthier today than many believe. Activists, who operate by nature on the fringes of hierarchies of economy and power, often fail to recognize the power of activity that seems inconsequential. Her goal, in essence, is “to throw out the crippling assumptions with which many activists proceed.” While Solnit’s goal is admirable and her prose graceful, this book suffers from the same confusion and disorganization she recognizes as necessarily inherent to activism itself. Her examples are diverse yet disjointed; she is overly reliant on the words of others; and she often wanders into spiritual mumbo-jumbo and platitudes. While these tendencies hamper the clarity of her argument, fans of Solnit and progressives may find much to admire here.”
—Publishers Weekly