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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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