Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure - Hardcover

Quinn, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609604902 ISBN 13: 9780609604908

Verlag: Crown Publications, 1999

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Argues that if humankind is to survive, it must move beyond an exploitation of the planet and its resources, other species, and other human beings to an enlightened future that emphasizes sustaining rather than consuming the world

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DANIEL QUINN is the award-winning author of <b>Ishmael</b>, <b>The Story of B</b>, and <b>My Ishmael</b>. He lives in Houston, Texas.

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Martian anthropologists were to study our culture, their initial findings might read something like this: These people have the strange idea that the thing they call civilization is some sort of final, unsurpassable invention. Even though vast numbers of them suffer in this oppressively hierarchical system, and even though it appears to be plunging them toward a global catastrophe, they cling to it as if it were the most wonderful thing (as they quaintly say) since sliced bread. That a more agreeable (and less catastrophic) system exists BEYOND civilization, seems to be entirely unthinkable to them.<br><br>In <b>Beyond Civilization</b>, Daniel Quinn has made it his task to think the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to construct a pair of shoes, but we're convinced there must be only one right way for people to live--and the one we have is it, no matter what. Even if we hate it, we must cling to

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• Verlag: Crown Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0609604902
• ISBN 13: 9780609604908
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 202
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