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

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.