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The Problem of Civilization
Author: Derrick Jensen
Politics /Nature / History
Paperback
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
pages
ISBN 158322694x
Price: $16.95
Having long laid waste our own sanity, and having long forgotten what it feels like to be free, most of us too have
no idea what it’s like to live in the real world. Seeing four salmon spawn causes me to burst into tears. I have never
seen a river full of fish. I have never seen a sky darkened for days by a single flock of birds. (I have, however, seen
skies perpetually darkened by smog.) As with freedom, so too the extraordinary beauty and fecundity of the world
itself: It’s hard to love something you’ve never known. It’s hard to convince yourself to fight for something you may
not believe has ever existed. —from Endgame
Description
The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen’s immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language
Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized
culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this relationship impels us towards a
revolutionary and as-yet undiscovered shift in strategy. 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.
Derrick Jensen, activist, author, small farmer, beekeeper, teacher, and philosopher, is the widely acclaimed author
of A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe, among others. A finalist for the 2003 J.
Anthony Lukas Book Prize whose writing has been described as “breaking and mending the reader’s heart,”
Jensen’s speaking engagements in recent years have packed university auditoriums, conferences, and bookstores
nationwide. He lives in rural California.
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