Description: Achille Mbembe theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world--one plagued by inequality, militarization, enmity, and a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces--and calls for a radical revision of humanism a the means to create a more just society.
Review Quotes: "[Mbembe's] new book . . . is a precious tool to understand what occurs in the North as well as in the South. The analyses of this faithful reader of Franz Fanon are irrevocable: war has become not an exception but a permanent state, 'the sacrament of our era'. . . . One of the biggest challenges we have to face, Mbembe warns us, is to defend our democracies while including this 'other' whom we don't want if we are to build our common future."--Séverine Kodjo-Grandvaux and Michael Pauron "Jeune Afrique"