“Read it and you will never think of civilization in the same way again.”—Kirkpatrick Sale
This anthology about "the pathology of civilization" offers insight into how progress and technology have led to emptiness and alienation.
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This I a beautiful collection of work from the most important thinkers of our time. John Zerzan put this amaizing book together for people who know the horrors of civilization. I would reccomend this book to anybody and everybody living in our destructive modern culture. This book brings up points of an all around great perspective of civilization, with words from my personal favorite authors. Another plus is it is short but still a very percise and accurate read. You could finish it in a day or weekend. Over all beautiful piece of work.
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A great critique of civilization,
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Against Civilization by John Zerzan is a great compilation of writings from the hands of many different authors.
The essays/excerpts cover a variety of subjects, including: topsoil depletion, deforestation, the loss of bio-diversity, pollution, and the human influence on the natural world. Many of the essays also discuss the harms of modern life, the emptiness of civilized living, and the pervasive unhappiness that pervades so many human lives. My favorite writings were: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan! Marvin Harris, Our Kind Chellis Glendinning, My Name is Chellis and I'm Recovering from Western Civilization Ivan Illich, Toward a History of Needs Tamarack Song, The Old Way and Civilization William Koetke, The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and The Seed of the Future Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society Feral Faun, Feral Revolution Kirkpatrick Sale, Rebels Against the Future: Lessons from the Luddites All in all, this book is a great read for those willing to take an honest, hard look at what we call civilization.
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Against Civilization,
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Well written and informed, a must read. I read books of this nature all the time and my mind has not been stretched this far in a decade.
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Since the first edition of Against Civilization [1999] the general perspective referred to by its title has begun to make sense to a growing number of people. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Native People, Old Way, Rock Candy Mountains, Noble Savage, Air Force, North America, Stone Age, Third World, Fredy Perlman, Mother Earth, United States New!
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- Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness, Revised by Frederick Turner on page 51, page 185, and Back Matter
- Woman & Nature the Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin on page 141, page 258, and Back Matter
- Works and Days (Oxford University Press academic monograph reprints) by Hesiod on page 2, and page 6
- News From Nowhere (Oxford World's Classics) by William Morris on page 215, and Back Matter
- The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution by Andrew Bard Schmookler on page 165, and Back Matter
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- TYR: Myth - Culture - Tradition, Vol. 1 by Michael Moynihan on page 211
- Surrealism, Politics and Culture (Studies in European Cultural Transition) by Raymond Spiteri on page 272
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