| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 275 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Foreword / Chellis Glendinning -- Introduction / John Zerzan -- Preface. Unintended Consequences / Kevin Tucker -- Section I. Outside Civilization. The Golden Feast / Roy Walker ; The Noble Savage : A Study in Romantic Naturalism / Hoxie Neale Fairchild ; Discourse on the Origins of Inequality / Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; "Excursions" / Henry David Thoreau ; Against His-story, Against Leviathan! / Fredy Perlman ; Primitive Man and His Food / Arnold DeVries ; The Original Affluent Society / Marshall Sahlins ; Birds Combat Civilization / Lynn Clive ; Wildflowers : A Bouquet of Theses / John Landau ; Minima Moralia : Reflections from Damaged Life / Theodor Adorno ; Our Kind / Marvin Harris ; Spokane Museum / Ramona Wilson -- |
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Section II. The Coming of Civilization. The Earth as Modified by Human Action / George P. Marsh ; Beyond Geography : The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness / Frederick Turner ; The Invasion Within : The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America / Jams Axtell ; Elements of Refusal / John Zerzan ; Nature and Madness / Paul Shepard ; Health and the Rise of Civilization / Mark Nathan Cohen ; The Search for Society / Robin Fox ; My Name of Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization / Chellis Glendinning ; Society Against the State / Pierre Clastres ; The Land of the Naked People / Madhusree Mukerjee ; Reading and Writing / Robert Wolff -- |
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Section III. The Nature of Civilization. On the Aesthetic Education of Man / Friedrich Schiller ; Theory of Four Movements and General Destinies / Charles Fourier ; Civilization and Its Discontents / Sigmund Freud ; Civilization and the Primitive / John Landau ; Eclipse of Reason / Max Horkheimer ; Dawn and Decline / Max Horkheimer ; Was Civilization a Mistake? / Richard Heinberg ; Here: a small history of a mining town in the american southwest: warren/bisbee az / Barbara Mor ; Toward a History of Needs / Ivan Illich ; Modernity and the Holocaust / ; Zygmunt Bauman ; Civilization Is Like a Jetliner / T. Fulano ; Industrial Society and Its Future / Unabomber (aka "FC") ; The Old Way and Civilization / Tamarack Song ; Women/Wilderness / Ursula K. LeGuin -- |
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Section IV. The Pathology of Civilization. Conventional Lies, or Our Civilization / Max Nordau ; The Final Empire : The Collapse of Civilization and The Seed of the Future / William H. Koetke ; The Collapse of Complex Societies / Joseph A. Tainter ; Where the Wasteland Ends : Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society / Theodore Roszak ; The Parable of the Tribes : The Problem of Power in Social Evolution / Andrew Bard Schmookler ; Critique of Cynical Reason / Peter Sloterdijk ; The Seeds of Time / Fredric Jameson ; The Medium Is the Medium / labor of ludd ; How Nice to Be Civilized! / Des Réfractaires ; Civilization in Bulk / David Watson ; Memories and Visions of Paradise / Richard Heinberg ; They're Always Telling Me I'm Too Angry / Chrystos ; Man and Technics : A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life / Oswald Spengler ; In Search of Noble Ancestors / John Mohawk -- |
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Section V. The Resistance to Civilization. Avoiding Social and Ecological Disaster : The Politics of World Transformation / Rudolf Bahro ; Future Primitive / John Zerzan ; News from Nowhere / William Morris ; Feral Revolution / Feral Faun ; Don't Eat Your Revolution! Make It! / Anonymous ; The Machine in Our Heads / Glenn Parton ; Revolt of the Bats / Alon K. Raab ; Rebels Against the Future : Lessons from the Luddites / Kirkpatrick Sale ; Actions Speak Louder Than Words / Derrick Jensen ; We Have To Dismantle All This / Anti-Authoritarians Anonymous ; Talking to the Owls and Butterflies / John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes ; Anarcho-Futurist Manifesto / Group of Anarcho-Futurists ; Woman and Nature : The Roaring Inside Her / Susan Griffin ; Why Civilization? / Communiqué #23 from Disorderly Conduct #6 |
| Summary |
"A new anthology edited by the anarchist philosopher John Zerzan ... The book is composed of excerpts from the works of a wide range of authors who've offered radical critiques of industrial society. Against Civilization is not all poetic rage; the various contributions include reasoned analyses of the inherent contradictions of industrial capitalism, celebrations of vernacular culture, and inspiring visions of worlds beyond systematic domination and exploitation. As Kirkpatrick Sale has said of the book, 'It is its collective refusal to say 'Here is civilization: just accept it' that makes this volume so important. Read it and you will never think of civilization in the same way again"--From publisher's description |
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This anthology about "the pathology of civilization" offers insight into how progress and technology have led to emptiness and alienation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-275) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Anarchism.
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Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
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Technology and civilization -- Political aspects
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Anarchism -- Environmental aspects
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anarchism.
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Anarchism
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Civilization, Modern
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Technology and civilization -- Political aspects
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Civilization
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Kulturkritik.
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Kulturhistoria.
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Kulturell identitet.
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excerpts.
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Discursive works
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Excerpts
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Excerpts.
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Discursive works.
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Extraits.
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Discours et échanges.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zerzan, John, editor of compilation.
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Tubbesing, R. L., illustrator
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| ISBN |
9781932595703 |
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1932595708 |
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9780922915989 |
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0922915989 |
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