When we are human : notes from the age of pandemics /
These are dark and darkening times, challenging us to look deeper to grasp the roots and dynamics of the looming civilizational crisis. Chronic illness of the planet calls for radically new thinking if there is to be any hope of renewal. When We Are Human offers thought at a necessary and primal lev...
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Port Townsend, Washington :
Feral House,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Prehistory
- 1a. News from Prehistory: An Update
- 1b. When We Were Human
- 1c. Human Nature
- 1d. Fire
- 1e. Ritual
- 1f. Gone to Croatan
- 2. History
- 2a. Weaving
- 2b. Enclosed
- 2c. Modernity Takes Over
- 2d. Divided Life
- 2e. Twilight of the Evening Lands: The Case of Oswald Spengler
- 2f. Decadence and the Machine
- 2g. Concluding Anti-History Postscript
- 2h. Done In From Within: An Intemperate Review
- 2i. A Note on Freedom
- 2j. Actual Nihilism: The SF Bay Area in the '70s
- 2k. Also a Spiritual Movement
- 21. Death and the Zeitgeist
- 2m. Racism and the Symbolic
- 3. Techno-Madness
- 3a. Faster! The Age of Acceleration
- 3b. Not So Close Encounters: Distanced in the Age of Autism
- 3c. Machine Psychology: A Disappearing Act
- 3d. Abandon the Death Ship
- 3e. Can't Go Back
- 3f. Out With the New
- 3g. Life as Civilization Begins to Crumble
- 4. Philosophy/Anti-Philosophy
- 4a. The Puzzle of Symbolic Thought
- 4b. Art and Meaning
- 4c. Night
- 4d. Death
- 4e. Meaning in the Age of Nihilism
- 4f. The Case Against Philosophy
- 4g. My Problem With Adorno
- 4h. Experience
- 4i. 0 Lost...?
- 4j. Value and Its Enemies
- 5. Where Are We? Where Are We Going?.