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Table des matières
Introduction: Lived Cosmologies and Climate Wreckage | 1
1 Hesiod, Ovid, and a Turbulent Cosmos | 18
First Coda: Jocasta, James Baldwin, and Tragic Possibility | 45
2 Augustine and the First Conquest of Pagans | 58
Second Coda: Catherine Keller and Diverse Christianities | 89
3 Todorov, the Second Conquest, and Aztec Cosmology | 99
Third Coda: Tocqueville and White Settler Society | 124
4 Descartes, Kant, and Amazonian Perspectivism | 135
Fourth Coda: Nietzsche and the History of an Error | 165
5 Amitav Ghosh, Michel Serres, and the Time of Climate Wreckage | 178
Acknowledgments | 211
Notes | 215
Bibliography | 241
Index | 251
A propos de l'auteur
William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins, where he teaches political theory. His books include
Resounding Events (Fordham, 2022);
Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth (Duke, 2020);
Aspirational Fascism (Minnesota, 2017);
Facing the Planetary (Duke, 2017);
Capitalism and Christianity, American Style (Duke, 2008);
Why I Am Not a Secularist (Minnesota, 1999);
The Ethos of Pluralization (Minnesota, 1995); and
The Terms of Political Discourse (Princeton, 1983; 3rd ed., 1993). In a poll of American political theorists published in 2010, he was named the fourth most influential political theorist in America over the last twenty years, after Rawls, Habermas, and Foucault.
Résumé
This counter-history of western thought explores how a Christian cosmology supported the conquest of paganism in Europe and the Americas, sowed seeds of climate wreckage, complemented capitalist ravages, and helped to conceal that wreckage. Connolly advances a counter-cosmology and political strategy indebted to pagan predecessors and recent minor philosophers in the west.
