01530nam a22001697a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020001800062040001200080082001500092100002000107245007300127260003600200300001000236520108100246650003301327OSt20260804124735.0260804b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9798888904510  cAACR-II  a303.4 SOL   aSolnit, Rebecca  aBeginning comes after the end: notes on a world dying and being born  aChicagobHaymarket Books c2026  a147p.  aRebecca 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.  aSocial Sciences & Processes