(Ebook) Hope In The Dark by Rebecca Solnit ISBN 9781608465767, 1608465764

(Ebook) Hope In The Dark by Rebecca Solnit ISBN 9781608465767, 1608465764

Hope In The Dark, a book as powerful and influential as Men Explain Things to Me was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them — and the unimaginable changes soon to come.“[A] landmark book... Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes."  -  ViceIn it, she 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 argues 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. “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.”  -  The New YorkerNow, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.”  -  Bill McKibben, author of Falter