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The Culture of Make Believe by Jensen, Derrick
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 2 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 1931498571
- Book Title
- Culture of Make Believe
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Chelsea Green Publishing
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.8 in
- Genre
- Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science
- Topic
- Discrimination & Race Relations, International Relations / General, Political
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 33.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 720 Pages
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Derrick Jensen takes no prisoners in The Culture of Make Believe, his brilliant and eagerly awaited follow-up to his powerful and lyrical A Language Older Than Words. What begins as an exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century America to today's death squads in South America soon explodes into an examination of the very heart of our civilization. The Culture of Make Believe is a book that is as impeccably researched as it is moving, with conclusions as far-reaching as they are shocking.
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Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN-10
1931498571
ISBN-13
9781931498579
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30215955
Product Key Features
Book Title
Culture of Make Believe
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Discrimination & Race Relations, International Relations / General, Political
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
720 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
33.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ht1523
Reviews
Publishers Weekly- Writing with the same driven passion and intense intelligence as his critically acclaimed A Language Older Than Words, which examined the interconnections between personal and social violence, Jensen says this book "is more about racism and far more broadly hate as it manifests itself in our Western world." As in the earlier work, Jensen paints on a huge canvas he details American racism from the genocidal slave trade through lynchings to the 2000 murder of Amadou Diallo by NYC police, and covers a wide range of other cultural horrors as well: the massacres of Native American people, the Holocaust, the 8,000 deaths from the 1984 Union Carbide gas leak in India, and the deaths of 500,000 children in Iraq. The book is packed full of startling details South African apartheid laws were enacted at the direct request of the De Beers diamond company to facilitate business; aspects of Christian doctrine supported slavery until about 100 years ago. But the uniqueness and enormous power of Jensen's work is his ability to forge these events into an emotionally compelling and devastating critique of the intellectual, psychological, emotional and social structures of Western culture. Along with greed and globalization he says that the valuing of production over life and the abstract over the particular have set Western culture on a course that will end "really, with the end of the planet." While some readers might take umbrage at his more unsettling associations he compares Hitler's political language to Teddy Roosevelt's Jensen's intricate weaving together of history, philosophy, environmentalism, economics, literature and psychology has produced a powerful argument that demands attention in the tradition of such important books as Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization and Brigid Brophy's Black Ship to Hell.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Table of Content
Preface 1. Uncovering 2. Utility 3. Invisibility 4. Contempt 5. Power 6. Property 7. Philanthropy 8. Giving back the land 9. Beginning to see 10. Redemption and failure 11. Flesh 12. Seeing things 13. The other side of darkness 14. Criminals 15. Killers 16. The cost of power 17. Tranquility and felicity 18. Assimilation 19. the impossibility of forgetting 20. Production 21. False contracts 22. Competition 23. Distance 24. Corporations, cops, and hungry ghosts 25. War 26. Resistance 27. Expanding the frontier 28. The view from inside 29. The closing of the iron cage 30. Holocausts 32. Coming home
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Dewey Decimal
305.8
Dewey Edition
22
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