The Planetary Sublime Part II of The Problem of an Unloving World

Authors

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Case Western Reserve UniversityFollow

Author ORCID Identifier

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-15-2022

DOI

10.5840/envirophil2022914119

Abstract

This essay interprets Dipesh Chakrabarty’s The Climate of History in a Planetary Age in light of the European tradition of thought about the sublime. The first half of the essay stages Chakrabarty’s historiography within that tradition focusing on a critical understanding of Kant. Then, the essay considers how the trace of the sublime in Chakrabarty’s approach to planetary history is interpretable as a form of social alienation. That argument draws on the critical theory of Steven Vogel and decolonial critique. Finally, the essay considers the moods of protest as non-alienated responses to the planetary bypassing the coloniality of the sublime.

Publication Title

Environmental Philosophy

Volume

19

Issue

2

First Page

241

Last Page

268

Rights

© Environmental Philosophy

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Environmental Philosophy. The final publisher version is available at: 10.5840/envirophil2022914119

Recommended Citation

Bendik-Keymer, Jeremy, "The Planetary Sublime Part II of The Problem of an Unloving World" (2022). Faculty Scholarship. 94.
https://commons.case.edu/facultyworks/94