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Original Title:	A Language Older Than Words
ISBN:	1931498555 (ISBN13: 9780931498558)
Edition Language:	English

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At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth. This chronicle of a young man's drive to transcend domestic abuse offers a challenging look at our worldwide sense of community and how we can make things better.

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Title	:	A Language Older Than Words
Author	:	Derrick Jensen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 418 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2004 by Chelsea Green Publishing Company (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Philosophy. Environment. Autobiography. Memoir. Nature. Biology. Ecology

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A book sharply dissects the anatomy of violence it's everywhere we can see: a greed driven economic system, the state which is synonymous with the powerful elite, familial crimes like child abuse, beating spouse, the raping of mother earth: overfishing of salmon, commercial poultry, chemicalized agriculture, abusing animals by radiation, building of mega dams, erasing indigenous cultures( sand Creek masscare), the worship of production over life, a religion of human superiority, a science that

Awful. Couldn't finish it though I tried and tried. I really wanted to be inspired but found the author whiny. I was too irritated with the repetitiveness and obviousness to waste any more time.

Derrick uses a free form style to his writing, it is all over the place! But his message is powerful and is one that I have felt since a little kid. I like all the examples and personal experiences he blends togther to speak. It feels like we are just sitting together having a conversation. He warns that our way of life is unsustainable. Ecological system after system is collapsing around us due to our own greed and ignorance. There is this one sentence i must share from this book: "Any

This book is a masterpiece. Jensen relates his own past experiences of abuse from his father to the destructive nature of the dominant culture. I highly recommend this book.

This is one of the best, most heart-rending books I've read in my life. I read a copy from the library, and as soon as I'd finished it, I bought the book because I know it'll be one I go back to, if my heart can take it.

A horribly depressing and whiny book. It was picked for out book club and only one person in the club was able to finish the book. I tried three times and couldn't get past the first hundred pages. The author visits every bad thing that has ever happened since the birth of humanity...and whines about every one of them.

This is one of the few books I have consciously decided not to finish in recent years. I agree wholeheartedly with Jensen's basic premise-- that we are rendering the world uninhabitable and committing atrocities against its human and nonhuman residents, and that our ability to do this depends on our denial of reality and our disconnecting from the people around us. I cannot, however, support the belief structure he builds up around this premise. Jensen equates studying science with raping