Mohamed Amer Meziane: The States of the Earth

Cover: 9781804291771 | The States of the Earth | Mohamed Amer Meziane | Taschenbuch | 2024

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Beschreibung

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.

Über 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Religion & Theologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781804291771
ISBN-10:	1804291773
Sprache:	Englisch
Originalsprache:	Französisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Meziane, Mohamed Amer
Übersetzung:	Adjemian, Jonathan
Hersteller:	Verso Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	238 x 153 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Mohamed Amer Meziane
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.04.2024
Gewicht:	0,346 kg