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Capitalism
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Collective
Debt
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forthcoming
Hall
Historicity
history
Intergenerational
justice
Koselleck
Marx
Memory
Modernity
Money
Philosophy
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Racial
Racism
Ranciere
Redress
Ricoeur
Stuart
Studies
Temporality
theory
Product details
- ISBN 9781836741688
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this provocative and thoughtful new book, Kenan van de Mieroop-Al Bahrani explores how capitalism, racism, debt, and inheritance operate through a politics of time, where history is never simply the past but actively shapes the present.
Demands that reparations be paid for slavery and European colonialism have echoed around the world, igniting a fierce debate and exposing the historical foundations of today's inequalities. The Weight of Nightmares argues that reparations are not just about the past. They promise to transform the present by confronting structures that reproduce relations of production and racial domination from one generation to the next.
What would it mean to undo capitalism's logic of time to imagine a radically different future? A politics of reparation would reconfigure time itself, opening new narratives and collective possibilities.
Demands that reparations be paid for slavery and European colonialism have echoed around the world, igniting a fierce debate and exposing the historical foundations of today's inequalities. The Weight of Nightmares argues that reparations are not just about the past. They promise to transform the present by confronting structures that reproduce relations of production and racial domination from one generation to the next.
What would it mean to undo capitalism's logic of time to imagine a radically different future? A politics of reparation would reconfigure time itself, opening new narratives and collective possibilities.
Kenan Van De Mieroop-Al Bahrani is an author based in Brussels. He is Assistant Professor of History at Leiden University in the Netherlands and co-founder of the International Network for Theory of History.
