01601nam a22001937a 4500 OSt 20260804124735.0 260804b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9798888904510 AACR-II 303.4 SOL Solnit, Rebecca 21318 Beginning comes after the end: notes on a world dying and being born Chicago Haymarket Books 2026 147p. 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. Social Sciences & Processes 21319 ddc B 0 0 ddc 0 0 LBSNAA LBSNAA 2026-08-04 0 303.4 SOL 186367 2026-08-04 2026-08-04 B 361826 361826