Endgame (2006) is Derrick Jensen‘s mammoth two-volume work ambling, wistfully, through The Problem of Civilization (as outlimned by these premises) and systematic dismantling of that problem via concerted, non-coerced Resistance to it, civilization.

Contents

1. Premises.
2. Volume I: The Problem of Civilization.
   1. Apocalypse.
   2. Five Stories.
   3. Civilization.
   4. Clean Water.
   5. Catastrophe.
   6. Violence.
   7. Irreedemable.
   8. Counterviolence.
   9. Listening to the Land.
   10. Carrying Capacity.
   11. The Needs of the Natural World.
   12. Predator and Prey.
   13. Choices.
   14. Abuse.
   15. A Culture of Occupation.
   16. Why Civilization Is Killing the World, Part I.
   17. Why Civilization Is Killing the World, Part II.
   18. Bringing Down Civilization, Part I.
   19. A History of Violence.
   20. Hatred.
   21. Love Does Not Imply Pacifism.
   22. It’s Time to Get Out.
   23. Courage.
   24. Hope.
   25. The Civilized Will Smile As They Tear You Limb from Limb.
   26. Their Insanity Was Permanent.
   27. Romantic Nihilism.
   28. Neck Deep in Denial.
   29. Making It Happen.
   30. Fulcrums.
   31. Violence.
   32. Spending Our Way to Sustainability.
   33. Empathy and Its Other.
   34. Should We Fight Back?
   35. Star Wars.
   36. Acknowledgements.
   37. Notes.
   38. Bibliography.
   39. About the Author.
3. Volume II: Resistance.
   1. We Shall Destroy All of Them.
   2. Winning.
   3. Importance.
   4. Identification.
   5. Abusers.
   6. A Thousand Years.
   7. Dams, Part I.
   8. Pretend You Are a River.
   9. Dams, Part II.
   10. Dams, Part III.
   11. Dams, Part IV.
   12. Too Much to Lose (Short Term Loss, Long Term Gain).
   13. Pyschopathology.
   14. Pacifism, Part I.
   15. Responsibility.
   16. Pacifism, Part II.
   17. What It Means to Be Human.
   18. Pacifism, Part III.
   19. Fewer than Jesus Had Apostles.
   20. Pacifism, Part IV.
   21. Get There First with the Most.
   22. Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Actions.
   23. Like a Bunch of Machines.
   24. Bringing Down Civilization, Part II.
   25. Breaking Faith.
   26. A Matter of Time.
   27. Bringing Down Civilization, Part III.
   28. Bringing Down Civilization, Part IV.
   29. The Crash.
   30. Civilization: Ongoing Holocaust.
   31. Endgame.
   32. The Return of the Salmon.
   33. Acknowledgements.
   34. Notes.
   35. Bibliography.
   36. About the Author.

Copyright

© 2006 Derrick Jensen.