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The States of the Earth
An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization
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How did disenchantment lead to climate change? The States of the Earth argues that European empires became secular as they entered the age of coal, using Orientalism as a means of racialising the Other. While industrial states began colonising parts of Asia and Africa in the...
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HOW THE DISENCHANTMENT OF EMPIRE LED TO CLIMATE CHANGE
The States of the Earth argues that European empires have become secular as they were entering the age of coal and using orientalism as a way of racializing the Other
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How did disenchantment lead to climate change? The States of the Earth argues that European empires became secular as they entered the age of coal, using Orientalism as a means of racialising the Other.
While industrial states began colonising parts of Asia and Africa in the aftermath of the French Revolution, the massive conversion of natives to Christianity waned in favour of the civilising mission. The critique of Heaven has thus overturned the Earth through empire and racial capitalism.
Our globalised civilisation has not been able to rid itself of Heaven but has decided to search for it on Earth by accumulating growth through the devastation of nature. The secular age is therefore a fossil age and the Anthropocene, a Secularocene.
Far from defending religion against a disenchanted modernity, this book suggests that phenomena such as evangelism or political Islam should be seen as products of empire and secularisation. Religions themselves have adapted to a world in which steam and railways were considered divine.
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ISBN: 9781804291771
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 April 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Edition: Paperback original
Contributors:
- Translated by Jonathan Adjemian
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 348g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Mohamed Amer Meziane is a philosopher, historian and performer based in New York. Born in London to Algerian parents, he spent his early childhood in the Middle East and North Africa before settling in France. He then grew up near Paris, thorned between a Muslim Algerian upbringing nurtured by the legacy of Third World Revolutions and the French secular school system in which Arabs were systematically racialized. Initially a musician, he decided to become a philosopher to inquire on the roots of this racial conflict. As a result, he defended a PhD at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and criticized the Western canon from his own perspective. In the aftermath of the Parisian attacks of 2015, his work became a target of the far right and he moved to New York, where he taught for 4 years at Columbia University before joining Brown University as an Assistant Professor.
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