Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
 | Seven Stories Press, 2006, Kindle Edition Customer Rating: 22 reviews Recommend |
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"Derrick Jensen is a rare and original voice of sanity in a chaotic world. He has wisdom and wit, grace and style, and is a wonderful guide to a good life beautifully lived."-Howard Zinn
The companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe, Endgame stands to become Jensen's most influential book. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises, Jensen leaves us hoping for what may be inevitable: a return to agrarian communal life via the disintegration of civilization itself.
Title: Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
Sales Rank: 4378 in Books
Author: Derrick Jensen
Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2006-06-01, Kindle Edition, 528 pages
- But, you've never had a gun.
- J.W.K. you wrote, "Fits Like a Gun in Your Hand"
How would you know?
I'm not just being flipent. I'm pointing out that Greens are (compared to say, rednecks) passive in temperment and ideology. They talk and talk....
Which is good, because there actions would be (like blowing up a dam) would be quite evil.… More reviews
- Incredibly insightful book!
- Civilization is killing the planet. This culture will not--can not--voluntarily transform into one that is sustainable. The inevitable conclusion of an unsustainable and ever-expanding way of life is omnicide. In Endgame, Derrick Jensen asks what we are going to do about that. There is no more important question we can ask ourselves, ever. There is nothing more important to think about and to figure out.
- Where Were You Derrick?
- Derrick Jensen is a brilliant thinker. "A Language Older Than Words" is essential reading, a truly brilliant book.
If you have ever felt caught between the desire to spike a tree and the belief that violence only begets violence, then like me you may well have looked forward to the release of "Endgame," Jensen's exploration of whether violence can be justified… More reviews
- a bit silly
- I have read most of derrick jensen's books, and he makes good arguments but they are handpicked.....he pulls down civilisation with all its ills and injustices, but offers no better solution.....He himself eats salmon but bemoans its demise....he himself likes to gamble....eat meat.....travel by car and plane etc.....yet criticises a society and its people for doing the… More reviews
- Always welcome discourse
- Another thought-provoking book from Derrick Jensen. He keeps us honest, or at least thinking about being honest, as the floods of consumerism and "free market" shenanigans threaten to drown us. He writes lucidly and passionately and one can't help but come away changed. And guilty about whether that change translates into action. Thanks, Derrick. More reviews
