{"product_id":"learning-to-live-in-the-dark-essays-in-a-time-of-catastrophe-paperback","title":"Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWen Stephenson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn these hard-hitting and deeply personal essays, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e writer and veteran activist Wen Stephenson traces his search for resolve in the face of our converging climate and political catastrophes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Faced 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?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eLearning to Live in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWen Stephenson\u003c\/strong\u003e is a veteran journalist, essayist, and climate-justice activist. A correspondent for \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e and frequent contributor to \u003cem\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/em\u003e, he is the author previously of \u003cem\u003eWhat We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other \u003c\/em\u003e(2015), about the pivotal early years of the U.S. climate justice movement. He is a former editor at \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e, where he edited the \"Sunday Ideas\" section, and has written for those and many other publications, including \u003cem\u003eSlate\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Boston Phoenix\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. In 2010, he left his career in mainstream media and has since covered, engaged in, and helped organize nonviolent resistance to fossil capital. He lives near Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.4 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 24, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53756896706893,"sku":"9798888903759","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/N8xN-K1XTO9798888903759.webp?v=1776754760","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/learning-to-live-in-the-dark-essays-in-a-time-of-catastrophe-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}