The Threefold Struggle

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

Andrew Frederick Smith (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

393 Seiten

2023
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-8872-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Andrew Frederick Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at Drexel University. His previous books include A Critique of the Moral Defense of Vegetarianism and The Deliberative Impulse: Motivating Discourse in Divided Societies.

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations for Quinn's Texts

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

Part I: Taker Culture: Fashioning a Mosaic

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

2. Axiomatic Lies: Totalitarian Agriculture and The Great Forgetting

3. Egress Regress: The Antisavior's Devotional

Part II: Leaver Culture: Charting a Certain Road

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

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

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

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

7. Beyond Civilization: The Rise and Decline of Hierarchalism

8. Unlocking the Food: In Defense of Symbioculture

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

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

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

List of Mentioned Characters
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	SUNY series in American Philosophy and Cultural Thought
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	1-4384-8872-6 / 1438488726
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-8872-1 / 9781438488721
Zustand	Neuware