Mohamed Amer Meziane

The States of the Earth (eBook, ePUB)

An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization
Übersetzer: Adjemian, Jonathan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand with racial capitalism in the age of empires: a terrestrial paradise was to be achieved through accumulation and the ravaging of nature.

Far from a defence of religion, The States of the Earth argues that phenomena such as evangelism and political Islam are best understood as products of empire and secularization. In a world where material technology was considered divine, religious and secular forces both tried to achieve Heaven on Earth by destroying Earth itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781804291788
• Artikelnr.: 70065818

Autorenporträt

Mohamed Amer Meziane is a philosopher, performer and professor at Brown University after teaching for 4 years at Columbia University. He is the author of The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization which won the Albertine Prize for non-fiction in 2023. His second book is titled: At the Edge of the Worlds: Towards a Metaphysical Anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the English-language edition
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction
1. The Republic Converts to Islam: The French Expedition to Egypt and Its
Afterlives
2. Giving Birth to the Universal: How the Colonization of Africa
Secularized Europe
3. Race and the Inconvertible: On Apartheid in North Africa
4. Anatomy of the Fossil State: Geopolitics of Climate in Europe and Beyond
5. Gospels of the Reich: Th e Eastern Question and the Jewish Question
6. A Circle of Returns: Towards a Critique of Imperiality
Epilogue
Index