Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections

From Hesiod on through to the "primitivists" of today, by way of Rousseau, William Morris, and Fourier, among others51 selections in all. Here's a reader that throws light on the inner logic of civilization and its devouring course. In these times of desolation for individual, society, and biosphere alike, such a collection (including commentaries by Zerzan) is urgently needed. Why does every culture have its longing for a lost Golden Age? How have History and Progress brought us such vast separation and emptiness, such a sense of no future? Is it civilization itself that has brought us here? Schiller, Paul Shepard, Kirkpatrick Sale, Fourier, Perlman, Sahlins, Bahro, Zerzan, the Unabomber, etc. etc.visionaries and theorists exposing the foundations of today's crisis.