A Sense of Urgency: How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Rhetoric

by Debra Hawhee

A study of how the climate crisis is changing human communication from a celebrated rhetorician.

Why is it difficult to talk about climate change? Debra Hawhee argues that contemporary rhetoric relies on classical assumptions about humanity and history that cannot conceive of the present crisis. How do we talk about an unprecedented future or represent planetary interests without privileging our own species? A Sense of Urgency...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226826716
• ISBN13: 9780226826714
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"