I had the pleasure of reviewing Roy Scranton's Impasse for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Within, I discuss the concept of civilizational impasse, the possibility of a politics without progress, and the alleged virtues of pessimism.
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Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
In the decade since publishing Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, witnessing the steady march of rising global carbon emissions only disrupted te...