One of America's leading and most passionate environmentalists dismantles the myth of human superiority.
Philosopher, teacher, radical activist, and leading voice of uncompromising dissent, DERRICK JENSEN is winner of numerous awards and honors including the Eric Hoffer Book Award, USA Today's Critic's Choice Award, and Press Action's Person of the Year. He is the author of over twenty books, including Endgame, A Language Older Than Words, and Dreams, and he regularly stirs packed auditoriums across the country with revolutionary spirit. Jensen holds degrees in creative writing and mineral engineering physics. He lives in Crescent City, California.
"Derrick Jensen's ferocious love of this earth and all her living
beings has ignited and crafted a genius work that has the
potential to shift human consciousness. The Myth of Human
Supremacy must be read and reread and read again. It will
shatter and rearrange your beliefs, call up your sorrow and
rage. It will humble you and inspire you to fight with every bit of
your being for the end of hierarchy, dominance and
destruction." —Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina
Monologues and In the Body of the World
“In the hottest year we've ever recorded, perhaps people of all
persuasions should take a moment to grapple with Derrick Jensen's
anger and love. This is a necessary provocation—it's clearly time
to think anew about who and what we are.” —Bill McKibben, author of
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
“Jensen’s arguments are ferocious, heartbroken, hilarious, and
lethally logical. The truths he tells are the most important in
this reeling world, bar none.” —Kathleen Dean Moore, author of
Moral Ground and Great Tide Rising
“Brilliant, lucid and gorgeously written, The Myth of Human
Supremacy attacks the core of the planet-scale problem, the idea
that only humans matter. The book is elegant and poised; the
argument unassailable; the narrative engaging, witty, and full of
surprises; the research meticulous. This is perhaps my favorite of
his books.” —Suprabha Seshan, Ashoka Fellow, Executive Director of
Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary
“The Myth of Human Supremacy is poetic and deeply moving. Jensen is
unafraid to interrogate unquestionable assumptions and ask 'crazy'
questions. Here he dismantles the core of our crises, the
mythologies that guide authoritarian, unsustainable, human
supremacist cultures. Read this and weep, but then with new
awareness shake off emotional and ideological blinders you have
been taught, and take action with those who understand that humans
are one among many.” —Darcia Narvaez, Psychology
Today
“In his most important work since A Language Older Than Words,
Jensen lays bare the sociopathy of the ideology of human supremacy:
the fact that western 'civilization' is based on domination,
thievery, and murder, while the natural world innately gravitates
towards harmony and balance. This supremacy is destroying the
planet, an infinitely complex living entity we've only barely begun
to understand. This book is mandatory reading.” —Dahr Jamail,
author of The End of Ice
“It is said that a revolution begins in the mind—an alternative to
our present circumstances must first be imagined before we can be
moved to fight for it. So we should all be grateful to Derrick
Jensen, who with this book breaks the ideological chains of human
supremacy and reveals the world as the interconnected web of being
that it truly is. With our illusions ripped away, we may yet be
able to save ourselves and our beautiful planet from the system
that is killing us all.” —Stephanie McMillan, author of Capitalism
Must Die
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