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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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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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. How did disenchantment lead 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. While industrial states started colonizing parts of Asia and Africa in the aftermath of the French Revolution, massive conversion of natives to Christianity waned in favor of the civilizing mission. The critique of Heaven has thus overturned the Earth through empire and racial capitalism. Our globalized civilization has not been able to get rid of Heaven but has decided to look 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 secularization. Religions themselves have adapted to a world in which steam and railways were considered as divine. HOW THE DISENCHANTMENT OF EMPIRE LED TO CLIMATE CHANGE Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781804291771