Derrick Jensen: 21 books
The Derrick Jensen Reader
Writings on Environmental Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
In an age marked by seemingly unstoppable environmental collapse and the urgent quest for solutions, environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen, the voice of the growing deep ecology movement, reveals for us new seeds of hope. Here for the first time in The Derrick Jensen Reader are collected generous...
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
A serial killer stalks the streets of Spokane, acting out a misogynist script from the dark heart of this culture. Across town, a writer named Derrick has spent his life tracking the reasons-political, psychological, spiritual-for the sadism of modern civilization. And through the grim nights, Nika,...
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In this impassioned polemic, radical environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the superiority of humans. Vast and underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life are explored in detail—from the cultures of pigs and prairie dogs, to the...
Walking on Water
Reading, Writing and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
Remember the days of longing for the hands on the classroom clock to move faster? Most of us would say we love to learn, but we hated school. Why is that? What happens to creativity and individuality as we pass through the educational system?
Walking on Water is a startling and provocative...
Endgame, Volume 1
The Problem of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
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...
by Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
What We Leave Behind is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, award-winning author Derrick Jensen and activist Aric McBay...
Not in His Image
Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Basing much of Not in His Image on the Nag Hammadi and other Gnostic writings, John Lamb Lash explains how a little-known messianic sect propelled itself into a dominant world power, systematically wiping out the great Gnostic spiritual teachers, the Druid priests, and the shamanistic healers of Europe...
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
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...
Listening to the Land
Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
In this far-ranging and heartening collection, Derrick Jensen gathers conversations with environmentalists, theologians, Native Americans, psychologists, and feminists, engaging some of our best minds in an exploration of more peaceful ways to live on Earth. Included here is Dave Foreman on biodiversity,...
Truths Among Us
Conversations on Building a New Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
From acclaimed author Derrick Jensen comes a prescient, thought-provoking collection of interviews with 10 leading writers, philosophers, teachers, and activists who argue against society's belief that corporations and governments know what is best for the future, instead choosing to help acknowledge...
Deep Green Resistance
Strategy to Save the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, "Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?" No one ever says yes.
Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible...
How Shall I Live My Life?
On Liberating the Earth from Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
In this collection of interviews, Derrick Jensen discusses the destructive dominant culture with ten people who have devoted their lives to undermining it. Whether it is Carolyn Raffensperger and her radical approach to public health, or Thomas Berry on perceiving the sacred; be it Kathleen Dean Moore...
Voices of Resistance
Derrick Jensen: Thought to exist in the wild & other essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Over the last 40 years, the world has lost more than fifty percent of its wildlife population. The amount of carbon dioxide has exceeded the critical 400 ppm limit and emissions continue to rise. The oceans now contain only 10 percent of the original mass of fish. Capitalism creates an elite of a...
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Jensen's furthest-reaching book yet, Dreams challenges the "destructive nihilism" of writers like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris who believe that there is no reality outside what can be measured using the tools of science. He introduces the mythologies of ancient cultures and modern indigenous...
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