Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization | 
 enlarge | Author: Derrick Jensen
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 28334
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.4
ISBN: 158322730X
Dewey Decimal Number: 304.2
EAN: 9781583227305
ASIN: 158322730X
Publication Date: June 1, 2006
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"Derrick Jensen is a rare and original voice of sanity in a chaotic world. He has wisdom and wit, grace and style, and is a wonderful guide to a good life beautifully lived."-Howard Zinn The companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe, Endgame stands to become Jensen's most influential book. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises, Jensen leaves us hoping for what may be inevitable: a return to agrarian communal life via the disintegration of civilization itself.
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 But, you've never had a gun. June 2, 2008
0 out of 11 found this review helpful
J.W.K. you wrote, "Fits Like a Gun in Your Hand"
How would you know?
I'm not just being flipent. I'm pointing out that Greens are (compared to say, rednecks) passive in temperment and ideology. They talk and talk....
Which is good, because there actions would be (like blowing up a dam) would be quite evil.
 Incredibly insightful book! April 4, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Civilization is killing the planet. This culture will not--can not--voluntarily transform into one that is sustainable. The inevitable conclusion of an unsustainable and ever-expanding way of life is omnicide. In Endgame, Derrick Jensen asks what we are going to do about that. There is no more important question we can ask ourselves, ever. There is nothing more important to think about and to figure out.
Unless we stop it, and it may already be too late, civilization (and global industrial capitalism in particular), will continue chewing up this planet until it has destroyed everything. The stakes really are that high.
It really is that urgent. In Endgame, Jensen brings to bear irrefutable logic, total honesty, his generous spirit, and incredible insight about how this culture works, to help the reader snap out of denial and face reality with strength and courage. I don't know another book that is more important to read and absorb... and, of course, to act upon.
Where Were You Derrick? March 27, 2008
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
Derrick Jensen is a brilliant thinker. "A Language Older Than Words" is essential reading, a truly brilliant book.
If you have ever felt caught between the desire to spike a tree and the belief that violence only begets violence, then like me you may well have looked forward to the release of "Endgame," Jensen's exploration of whether violence can be justified in response to our dark and destructive culture.
Gandhi, Edward Abbey, Martin Luther King, Thoreau, all examined this question. While Jensen may well be original enough to belong in this list, he failed with the first volume of "Endgame."
The book is self-indulgent, rambling, unfocused and full of vitriol. Deep thought? Don't look for it here.
 a bit silly February 14, 2008
8 out of 19 found this review helpful
I have read most of derrick jensen's books, and he makes good arguments but they are handpicked.....he pulls down civilisation with all its ills and injustices, but offers no better solution.....He himself eats salmon but bemoans its demise....he himself likes to gamble....eat meat.....travel by car and plane etc.....yet criticises a society and its people for doing the same thing.....no example is set or put into practice.....it is easy to pull apart something, but alot harder to replace or rebuild.....in the end the feeling is; whats his point and it all seems abit silly to rage against the machine that he himself embraces and benefits from.....a good read but shallow at the same time.....walk the talk jensen and you'll add some meat to the words written....rod simpson...australia
Always welcome discourse December 31, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Another thought-provoking book from Derrick Jensen. He keeps us honest, or at least thinking about being honest, as the floods of consumerism and "free market" shenanigans threaten to drown us. He writes lucidly and passionately and one can't help but come away changed. And guilty about whether that change translates into action. Thanks, Derrick.
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