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"With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Originally published in 2004, now with a new foreword and afterword, Solnit's influential book shines a light into the darkness of our time in an unforgettable new edition"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword to the third edition: Grounds for hope
• Looking into the darkness
• When we lost
• What we won
• False hope and easy despair
• A history of shadows
• The millennium arrives: November 9, 1989
• The millennium arrives: January 1, 1994
• The millennium arrives: November 30, 1999
• The millennium arrives: September 11, 2001
• The millennium arrives: February 15, 2003
• Changing the imagination of change
• On the indirectness of direct action
• The angel of alternate history
• Viagra for caribou
• Getting the hell out of paradise
• Across the great divide
• After ideology, or, Alterations in time
• The global local, or, Alterations in place
• A dream three times the size of Texas

• Doubt
• Journey to the center of the world
• Looking backward: the extraordinary achievements of ordinary people (2009)
• Everything's coming together while everything falls apart (2014)
• Backward and forward: an afterword.

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Author/Creator:

Solnit, Rebecca , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Hope in the dark: untold histories, wild possibilities [by Solnit, R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Hope in the dark [by Solnit, R.] (Third edition, with a new foreword and afterword; Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2016] — ISBN 9781608465767)

Subjects:

Social change

Social action

Hope

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HN18 .S653 2016eb

ISBNs:

9781608465798 (electronic book)
1608465799 (electronic book)
9781608465767 (paperback) [Invalid]
1608465764 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

949988361

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4454829 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12994410