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Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros »

Authors: Derrick Jensen
ISBN-13: 9781931498562, ISBN-10: 1931498563
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Derrick Jensen

Book Synopsis

Declaring American culture "the most destructive culture ever to exist," this work presents 29 interviews with a range of activists, theologians, psychologists, and other thinkers who trace a range of themes of related to the relationship between culture and environmental destruction. Among the figures interviewed are Earth First! cofounder Dave Foreman, historian of religion Thomas Berry, technology critic Jerry Mander, Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan, psychologist Robert Jay Lifton, Native American scholar and activist Ward Churchill, and feminist and peace activists Starhawk. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Introduction	1
	Dave Foreman	5
	Christopher Manes	14
	David Orr	24
	Thomas Berry	35
	Charlene Spretnak	44
	John A. Livingston	53
	Matthew Fox	67
	David Ehrenfeld	78
	John Keeble	87
	Jerry Mander	99
	Neil Evernden	112
	Linda Hogan	122
	William R. Catton, Jr.	131
	Robert Jay Lifton	142
	Ward Churchill	153
	Frederick Turner	164
	Starhawk	173
	Reed Noss	183
	John Osborn	190
	Peter Berg	198
	Max Oelschlaeger	208
	Sandra Lopez	222
	Dolores LaChapelle and Julien Puzey	232
	Paul Shepard	248
	Arno Gruen	260
	Catherine Keller	273
	Jeannette Armstrong	282
	Susan Griffin	300
	Terry Tempest Williams	310
	Acknowledgments	327