Achille Mbembe, Professor of History and Political Science, author of “The Earth Community”

Achille Mbembe Professor of History and Political Science author of

Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in Ideas: Achille Mbembe, director of the Foundation for Innovation for Democracy, professor of History and Political Science as well as researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). Winner of the Ernst-Bloch Prize in 2018, he is the author, in La Découverte, of ” Coming out of the big night (2010) and Brutalism (2020). He just wrote: The earthly community “.

Firmly relying on the unfathomable richness of these thoughts, Achille Mbembe offers in this essay a stimulating reflection on the Earth, its future, and above all the kind of community it forms with the cohort of animate and inanimate species that inhabit it. , have found refuge there or are staying there “.

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