Mohamed Amer MezianeThe States of the Earth
An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization
Übersetzer: Adjemian, Jonathan
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.
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
