The Derrick Jensen Reader

Writings on Environmental Revolution

By: Derrick Jensen

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Paperback | 15 July 2012 | Edition Number 1

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The most gripping insights of celebrated radical environmentalist Derrick Jensen are available in a single, career-spanning volume.

In an age marked by seemingly unstoppable environmental collapse and the urgent quest for solutions, environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, the voice of the growing deep ecology movement, reveals for us new seeds of hope. Here for the first time in The Derrick Jensen Reader are collected generous selections from his prescient, unflinching books on the problem of civilization and the path to true resistance.

In the acclaimed A Language Older Than Words, Jensen dissects his own abusive childhood to examine the pathology of Western culture and shares with us the power and beauty of an alliance with the natural world. He continues to use the lens of his own experience as well as the wisdom of philosophers, activists, and teachers to expose oppression and call us to action in his other early works, Listening to the Land, A Culture of Make Believe, Strangely Like War, and Walking on Water. We see his analysis deepen when he asks us to accept that the only moral response to biocide is resistance in the two-volume Endgame, a truth he explores further in Thought to Exist in the Wild, What We Leave Behind, the graphic novel As The World Burns, and in his two novels, Songs of the Dead and Lives Less Valuable. And in Dreams, Jensen's latest work, he leads us still further toward his vision for a healed planet, freeing us to see beyond the limits of our present culture to a future luminous with meaning.

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"A rare and original voice of sanity in a chaotic world." -Howard Zinn

"Activist Jensen's absorbing and insightful writings and speeches have placed him in the vanguard of the environmental movement." -Library Journal

"Singular, compelling and courageously honest." -Publishers Weekly

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Preface	p. 7
Listening to the Land: Conversations About Nature, Culture, and Eros	p. 15
A Language Older Than Words	p. 19
The Culture of Make Believe	p. 71
Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests	p. 113
Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution	p. 133
Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control	p. 153
Endgame, Volume One: The Problem of Civilization	p. 173
Endgame, Volume Two: Resistance	p. 215
Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos	p. 265
As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial	p. 287
What We Leave Behind	p. 301
Songs of the Dead	p. 341
Lives Less Valuable	p. 361
Dreams	p. 383
Essay: "Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change"	p. 421
Essay: "The Man Box"	p. 425
An Interview with Derrick Jensen	p. 431
Bibliography	p. 453
Notes	p. 463
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