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Against civilization : readings and reflections /
"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 an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Los Angeles, CA :
Feral House,
[2005]
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| Edición: | Enlarged edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.