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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456963703321

Titolo

Against civilization [[electronic resource] ] : readings and reflections / / edited by John Zerzan ; illustrations by R.L. Tubbesing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, CA, : Feral House, 2005

ISBN

1-282-74425-9

9786612744259

1-932595-70-8

Edizione

[Enlarged ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ZerzanJohn

Disciplina

335.83

Soggetti

Anarchism

Civilization, Modern - 20th century

Civilization, Modern - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Foreword: Chellis Glendinning; Introduction: John Zerzan; Preface: Kevin Tucker, Unintended Consequences; SECTION I. OUTSIDE CIVILIZATION; Roy Walker, The Golden Feast; Hoxie Neale Fairchild, The Noble Savage: A Study in Romantic Naturalism; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality; Henry David Thoreau, ""Excursions""; Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan!; Arnold DeVries, Primitive Man and His Food; Marshal Sahlins, ""The Original Affluent Society""; Lynn Clive, ""Birds Combat Civilization""; John Landau, ""Wildflowers: A Bouquet of Thesis""

Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged LifeMarvin Harris, Our Kind; Ramon Wilson, Spokane Museum; SECTION II: THE COMING OF CIVILIZATION; George P. Marsh, The Earth as Modified by Human Action; Frederick Turner, Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness; James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America; John Zerzan, Elements of Refusal; Paul Shepard, Nature and Madness; Mark Nathan Cohen, Health and the Rise of Civilization; Robin Fox, The Search for Society

Chellis Glendinning, My Name of Chellis and I'm in Recovery from



Western CivilizationPierre Clastres, Society Against the State; Madhusree Mukerjee, The Land of the Naked People; Robert Wolff, Reading and Writing; SECTION III: THE NATURE OF CIVILIZATION; Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man; Charles Fourier, Theory of Four Movements and General Destinies; Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents; John Landau, ""Civilization and the Primitive""; Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason; Max Horkheimer, Dawn and Decline; Richard Heinberg, ""Was Civilization a Mistake?""

Barbara Mor, Here: a small history of a mining town in the american southwest: Warren/Bisbee AZIvan Illich, Toward a History of Needs; Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust; T. Fulano, ""Civilization Is Like a Jetliner""; Unabomber (AKA ""FC""), ""Industrial Society and Its Future""; Tamarack Song, The Old Way and Civilization; Ursula Legun, Women/Wilderness; SECTION IV: THE PATHOLOGY OF CIVILIZATION; Max Nordau, Conventional Lies, or Our Civilization; William Koetke, The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and The Seed of the Future

Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex SocietiesTheodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society; Andrew Bard Schmookler, The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution; Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason; Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time; Labor of Ludd, ""The Medium Is the Medium""; Des Rėfractaires, ""How Nice to be Civilized!""; David Watson, ""Civilization in Bulk""; Richard Heinberg, Memories and Visions of Paradise; Chrystos, ""They're Always Telling Me I'm Too Angry""

Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

Sommario/riassunto

The primer of anarcho-primitivism.