The Disenchanted Earth : Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism

by Seymour, Richard (Author)

Society & social sciences

Published 22/04/2022 by The Indigo Press in the United Kingdom as part of the Mood Indigo series.

Paperback | 208 pages

From Richard Seymour, one of the UK's leading public intellectuals, comes a characteristic blend of forensic insight and analysis, personal journey, and a vivid respect for the natural world.

A planetary fever-dream. An environmental awakening that is also a sleep-walking, unsteadily weaving between history, earth science, psychoanalysis, evolution, biology, art and politics. A search for transcendence, beyond the illusory eternal present.

These essays chronicle the kindling of ecological consciousness in a confessed ignoramus. They track the first enchantment of the author, his striving to comprehend the coming catastrophe, and his attempt to formulate a new global sensibility in which we value anew what unconditionally matters.