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

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.