Threefold Struggle

Pursuing Ecological, Social, and Personal Wellbeing in the Spirit of Daniel Quinn

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvAndrew Frederick Smith

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Drawing on the thought of novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn, argues it is not too late to free ourselves from a culture in which we are compelled to destroy the world, one another, and even ourselves.We members of settler colonial culture-the latest form of what novelist and cultural critic Daniel Quinn calls Taker culture-are constrained by myriad institutions that leave us with little choice but to engage in practices that are profoundly damaging to the planet, to others, and to ourselves. Our path to living otherwise, Andrew Frederick Smith argues, lies in the threefold struggle, which is inspired by Quinn's focus on the interweaving roots of ecological, social, and personal wellbeing. These three forms of wellbeing are co-implicated. We cannot enjoy one without equally enjoying the others; they are a package deal. As such, what works for people individually and collectively works for the planet, and vice versa. Reclaiming our lives and revitalizing our human and more-than-human communities are salient acts of resistance against Taker culture. They offer means of escape from our cultural captivity and an opportunity for full-spectrum wellbeing.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-01
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt599 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
Antal sidor393
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438488714

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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations for Quinn's TextsPrologue: The Threefold Struggle for Ecological, Social, and Personal WellbeingPart I: Taker Culture: Fashioning a Mosaic 1. The "Quinn Method" of Cultural Criticism: Memes, Martian Anthropology, and Maieutics2. Axiomatic Lies: Totalitarian Agriculture and The Great Forgetting3. Egress Regress: The Antisavior's DevotionalPart II: Leaver Culture: Charting a Certain Road 4. Lessons in Success: Fire of Life, Law of Life, Community of Life5. Remembering How to Be Human: Gifts of Wisdom and Awareness of the Sacred6. Vitalizing a People, Becoming a Person: Seeds of Reclamation and ResistancePart III: A New Story to Be In: On to Croatoan 7. Beyond Civilization: The Rise and Decline of Hierarchalism8. Unlocking the Food: In Defense of Symbioculture9. Ending the Food Race: From Biomass to Human Mass and Back Again10. A Farewell to Miseducation: Unschooling and the Circus of LearningEpilogue: Changed Minds, Changed Options, and the Schematic of a New VisionList of Mentioned CharactersNotesReferencesIndex

"If we follow Angela Davis' prescription that 'radical' simply means 'grasping things at the roots,' then this work helps us do that by providing a deep critique of what we have been taught to uncritically accept as good in the development of civilization. The Threefold Struggle will appeal to anyone who takes personally the idea that the world can be saved not by trying to moderate our behavior but by making changes that are as dramatic as a religious conversion."—Tadd Ruetenik, author of The Demons of William James: Religious Pragmatism Explores Unusual Mental States