At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth. This chronicle of a young man’s drive to transcend domestic abuse offers a challenging look at our worldwide sense of community and how we can make things better.
Inhoudsopgave
1. Silencing
2. Coyotes, kittens, and conversations
3. Taking a life
4. Cultural eyeglasses
5. Cranes
6. The safety of metaphor
7. Claims to virtue
8. Seeking a third way
9. Breaking out
10. Economics
11. The goal is the process
12. Heroes
13. Metamorphosis
14. Insatiability
15. Violence
16. The parable of the box
17. Violence revisited
18. Coercion
19. Honeybees
20. A turning over
21. A life of my own
22. Interconnection
23. The plants respond
24. Death and awakening
25. A time of sleeping
26. Out of mourning, play
27. Trauma and recovery
28. Connection and cooperation
Over de auteur
Derrick Jensen is the prize-winning author of A Language Older than Words, The Culture of Make Believe, Listening to the Land, Strangely Like War, Welcome to the Machine, and Walking on Water. He was one of two finalists for the 2003 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, which cited The Culture of Make Believe as ‘a passionate and provocative meditation on the nexus of racism, genocide, environmental destruction and corporate malfeasance, where civilization meets its discontents.’ He writes for The New York Times Magazine, Audubon, and The Sun Magazine among many others. He is an environmental activist and lives on the coast of northern California.
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