Duncan Kelly is Professor of Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College.
There is something fresh and hopeful about this timely book. Kelly proceeds with a complex understanding of the Anthropocene, avoids the two extremes of climate-induced fatalism or politics that simply deny climate change, and explores resources within theories of representative politics they may enable democratic thought to rise to the challenge of a planetary environmental crisis. Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago Kelly takes up the challenge to rethink politics and the history of political thought in the age of the Anthropocene, and illuminates, in the process, both what is recurrent and what is new and urgent. Anne Phillips, London School of Economics