Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
In the inaugural talk of the Center's 2023-24 Speaker Series, Professor Chakrabarty starts from the arguments made in his recent books The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (2021) and One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax (2023), to explain why making a distinction between the globe and the planet as humanist categories calls for a new philosophical anthropology.
Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College at the University of Chicago. His books include Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000), The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (2021), and One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax (July 2023).
For information on upcoming programs in the Speaker Series, Scales of Belonging, click here.