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Crises are converging to form a meta-crisis that challenges the very existence of modern civilization. From prehistory to contemporary struggles and covering the fields of philosophy, technology, and psychology--Zerzan's original essays serve readers a view of possible renewal on every level.
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Table of Contents
0: Introduction by James V. Morgan
1: Pre-history
1a News from Prehistory
1b When We Were Human
1c Human Nature
1d Ritual
1e Gone to Croatan
2: History
2a Weavers
2b Enclosed
2c Modernity Takes Over
2d Twilight of the Evening Lands: The Case of Oswald Spengler
2e: Decadence and the Machine
2f Concluding Anti-History Postscript
2g Done In From Within
2h Freedom
2i Actual Nihilism: The SF Bay Area in the '70s
2j Racism and the Symbolic
3: Techno-madness
3a Faster
3b Not So Close Encounters
3c Abandon the Death Ship
3d Health as Civilization Begins to Crumble
4: Philosophy/Anti-Philosophy
4a The Puzzle of Symbolic Thought
4b Art and Meaning
4c Night
4d Death
4e Meaning in the Age of Nihilism
4f The Case Against Philosophy
4g Experience
4h O Lost...?
4i Value and Its Enemies
About the author
John Zerzan (born August 10, 1943) is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought (such as mathematics and art) and the concept of time.
