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Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!

Fredy Perlman

Paperback | Pages: 302 pages

Rating: 4.2 | 332 Users | 42 Reviews

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Original Title:	Against His-Story, Against Leviathan
ISBN:	0934868255 (ISBN13: 9780934868259)
Edition Language:	English

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Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! is a 1983 book by Fredy Perlman, for which he is best known. It is a personal critical perspective on contemporary civilization and society. The work defined anarcho-primitivism for the first time, and was a major source of inspiration for anti-civilization perspectives in contemporary anarchism, most notably on the thought of philosopher John Zerzan. In 2006 the book was translated into French under the title Contre le Léviathan, contre sa légende and into Turkish as Er-Tarih’e Karşı, Leviathan’a Karşı.

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Title	:	Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!
Author	:	Fredy Perlman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 302 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2002 by Black & Red (first published 1983)
Categories	:	History. Philosophy. Politics. Nonfiction. Anarchism

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Ratings: 4.2 From 332 Users | 42 Reviews

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I only give this book 4 stars because not everyone appreciates looking up so many references. In my mind an alternative title could be "A People's History of The Occident and Middle East" It is truly enlightening, and will leave you hungry for more knowledgeable about past peoples, empires, & the origins of what we misguidedly call Western Civilization.

Dont be misled by the poetic and mythologizing tone with which Fredy Perlman renders his epic Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! This is an exhaustively researched book. It is also profoundly philosophical, asking questions and suggesting answers you wont find anywhere else. The fact that it is beautifully written in an accessible manner is highly appropriate to its message, as you will see below. The books style is very much the opposite of dry scientific writing. I think if readers have

Written only a couple of years before Fredy Perlmans death, Against His-story provides a simple account of the rise and fall of civilisations from the beginnings of recorded history until around the mid-19th century. With every new culture that emerges, something familiar (e.g. institutions, religion, art) appears in the world until we more or less end up with something resembling our current state. The whole narrative unfolds with a simplicity and logic that is quite tragic. However Perlman

Absolutely one of my top 5 books of all time. This should be used as a supplement in high school or college-level world history courses, to give a different (often more accurate) interpretation of how the world developed. While I don't agree with every jot and tittle of Perlman's manifesto (particularly his Leviathanic interpretation of the Old Testament), he puts much of global his-storical development into a simple framework that allows the true reasons for it to "shine through" - that is, for

This anthropological/historical breakdown of Leviathan (power, control) is unique and amazing. Anarchist writing at its best.

I'd been told by a lot of close friends with good book tastes that I should definitely read this at some point, and had tried two or three times before but couldn't get past the first few pages (Perlman quotes yeats and blake and all these other poets, and try as I might throughout the years I've never really been able to understand most poetry). So I just skipped the first three pages worth of poems, and got into it pretty fast.Perlman does get a little heavey into

Written only a couple of years before Fredy Perlmans death, Against His-story provides a simple account of the rise and fall of civilisations from the beginnings of recorded history until around the mid-19th century. With every new culture that emerges, something familiar (e.g. institutions, religion, art) appears in the world until we more or less end up with something resembling our current state. The whole narrative unfolds with a simplicity and logic that is quite tragic. However Perlman