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The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization - Softcover

Meziane, Mohamed Amer

 
9781804291771: The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1804291773 ISBN 13: 9781804291771
Verlag: Verso Books, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mohamed Amer Meziane is a philosopher and historian. He is the Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities at Brown University. Through a sustained dialogue with the legacies of Hegel, Marx and Fanon, he examines how the Fall of Heaven overturned the Earth. His first book The States of the Earth (La Découverte 2021, Verso Books 2024) won the Albertine Prize for non-fiction in 2023. His second book (Au bord des mondes, VdE, 2023) is a philosophical critique of the "ontological turn" and his third book will soon be published by the Éditions du Seuil.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1804291773
ISBN 13 
9781804291771
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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