The threefold struggle : pursuing ecological, social, and personal wellbeing in the spirit of Daniel Quinn / Andrew Frederick Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Andrew F., 1972- author.

Series:

SUNY series in American philosophy and cultural thought.

SUNY Series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quinn, Daniel--Philosophy.

Quinn, Daniel.

Quinn, Daniel--Political and social views.

Quinn, Daniel--Criticism and interpretation.

Well-being.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (396 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations for Quinn's Texts

Prologue The Threefold Struggle for Ecological, Social, and Personal Wellbeing

Captivity

The Threefold Struggle

Rejecting Environmentalism in Favor of Saving the World

How We'll Proceed

Three More Things to Note

Part I Taker Culture: Fashioning a Mosaic

Chapter 1 The "Quinn Method" of Cultural Criticism: Memes, Martian Anthropology, and Maieutics

From Old Minds to New

Memes

Concerns and Qualifications

Lethal Memes

The Difference between Old and New Minds

Programs and Visions

Is Changing Minds Enough?

What about Those Who Aren't Convinced?

Martian Anthropology

Bombed Back to the Stone Age

The "Quinn Method"

Maieutics

Giving Birth to Ideas

Description Versus Prescription

You Are Needed

Chapter 2 Axiomatic Lies: Totalitarian Agriculture and The Great Forgetting

The Taker Story

The Basic Plotline

The Great Forgetting

The Myth of the Agricultural Revolution

Nothing Happened

As It Was Always Meant to Be

The Taker Axioms

Totalitarian Agriculture

Three Associated Practices

Ecological Mercenaries, Cultural Missionaries

Discomfort and Insecurity

Brick by Brick

Somatic Rebellion

Domination Systems

Thunderbolt in Freefall

Chapter 3 Egress Regress: The Antisavior's Devotional

Spiritual Catastrophe

The Garden of Eden

Cain and Abel

Narrative Appropriation

When Curses Should Be Blessings

Abel's Explanation

But Why?

The Salvific Imperative

The Boiling Frog

Muddying the Waters

Christianity

Judaism

Islam

Hinduism

Buddhism

Daoism

Confucianism

Distinguishing Theory from Practice

Antisalvation

A Certain Road

Part II Leaver Culture: Charting a Certain Road.

Chapter 4 Lessons in Success: Fire of Life, Law of Life, Community of Life

The Fire of Life

Gethsemani

"What Did It Mean?"

One Thing and No Two Things Alike

The Law of Life

Signs of Success

The Sublimity of the Law

The Emergence of Diversity

More on Creativity and Care

Displays of Evolutionary Stability

Interspecies Strategies

Intraspecies Strategies

The Community of Life

The Web Endlessly Woven

The People of the Deer

On the Way

Ex Plures Uno

Chapter 5 Remembering How to Be Human: Gifts of Wisdom and Awareness of the Sacred

Gifts of Wisdom

Seeing Beneath Surfaces

Discerning True Courses

Reading the Signs

Tracking

Throwing Sight Away

Optical Contortions

Literalism

Dreaming and Awakening

Becoming Human

How the Sacred Harmonic Emerged

Science and the Sacred

Remembering How to Be Human

Partnership Systems

Living Tribally

Closer to Nature?

Debuffering Ourselves

Chapter 6 Vitalizing a People, Becoming a Person: Seeds of Reclamation and Resistance

Sacredness

The Basic Statement

"Religion Is, in Reality, Living"

What Makes a People

Persons

Place

Performance

Kincentric Circles

Etiquette Without Ethics

Relatives

No One Right Way to Live

Abel's Resistance

In the Hands of the Gods

Stewardship Revisited

The Grammar of Animacy

Acknowledging Precedent

The Accordion Effect

The Perils of Allyship

Croatoan

Part III A New Story to Be In: On to Croatoan

Chapter 7 Beyond Civilization: The Rise and Decline of Hierarchalism

Under Lock and Key

Walking Away

The Myth of No Beyond

Structural Defectors

The New Tribal Revolution

Infrapolitics

Open Tribes

Getting More of What We Want

Suffering and Struggling-Together

Place-Based Enterprises

Civilizational Atrophy.

The Unsubmissive

And Unlocking the Food?

Chapter 8 Unlocking the Food: In Defense of Symbioculture

Toxiculture

Kincentric Eating

The Honorable Harvest

Diets and Systems

Impending Energy Descent

Sustainable Development

Peak Oil

Just Transitions

Throwing Open the Storehouse Doors

Decolonization

Decommodification

Shifting Terrain

Chapter 9 Ending the Food Race: From Biomass to Human Mass and Back Again

The Food Race

No Winning, Much Loss

The Great Acceleration

Peakism and Population Decline

The Insufficiency of Social Remediations

Poverty and Patriarchy

The ABCS of Ecology

Objections and Replies

Regionalism Objection

Independence Objection

Standard of Living Objection

Contraception Objection

Consumption Objection

A Relatively Graceful Decline

Letting People Starve?

Systemic Confusion

The Demographic Benefits of Symbioculture

Decommodification and Ending the Food Races

Decolonization and Leveraging the Limits of Biomass

A Word about Productivity

Equitable and Incremental

Still Skeptical?

Chapter 10 A Farewell to Miseducation: Unschooling and the Circus of Learning

Invisible Successes

Learning and Unlearning

From Instruction to Interaction

Ecologies of Intimacy

On the Road to Nowhere

The Circus of Learning

Pedagogical Precedent

Reclaiming Our Research

Epilogue Changed Minds, Changed Options, and the Schematic of a New Vision

List of Mentioned Characters

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781438488738

1438488734

OCLC:

1337066710