The Beginning Comes After the End
Notes on a World of Change
Subjects
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
- RELIGION / Buddhism / Zen
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice
Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century.
In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Despite the forces seeking to turn back the clock on history, change is not a possibility; it is an inevitability.
The changes amount to nothing less than dismantling an old civilization and building a new one, whose newness is often the return of the old ways and wisdoms. In this rising worldview, interconnection is a core idea and value. But because the transformation is obscured within a longer arc of history, its scale is seldom recognized.
While the white nationalist and authoritarian backlash drives individualism and isolation, this new world embraces antiracism, feminism, a more expansive understanding of gender, environmental thinking, scientific breakthroughs, and Indigenous and non-Western ideas, pointing toward a more interconnected, relational world.
Product Details
- Paperback
- 208 pages
- SKU
- 9798888904510
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books (3/3/26)
- Dimensions
- 5.2 x 0.5 x 7.5 inches
- Subjects
Subjects
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
- RELIGION / Buddhism / Zen
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice



