ISBN: 9781931498579 Year Added to Catalog: 2004 Book Format: Paperback Book Art: Notes, Bibliography Number of Pages: 6 x 9, 720 pages Book Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Old ISBN: 1931498571 Release Date: February 1, 2004
"I’m optimistic, because never before has our whole lifestyle been revealed as much for what it is.”
—John Zerzan, The Sun
"The knowledge that our culture is not redeemable had not paralyzed but energized them. These people were my models, my inspirations.”
—Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe
In his 700-page masterpiece, Jensen successfully scrapes away the justifications and rationalizations that governments, companies, and individuals hide behind when committing atrocities. The Culture of Make Believe represents the emergence of Jensen as one of our greatest intellectual treasures that our public policymakers desperately need to discover.
"As readers of the acclaimed A Language Older Than Words, can attest, Derrick Jensen is a public intellectual of rare abilities. In The Culture of Make Believe, Jensen sets the bar as high as possible..."