Once upon a Time in the West – Essays on the Politics of Thought and Imaginatio…

Once upon a Time in the WestEssays on the Politics of Thought and Imagination\nAuthor(s): Jan Zwicky\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780228017080, 978-0228017080\nSynopsis\nWestern civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwickys trenchant exploration of the root of global cultural and ecological collapse: a way of thinking that is also linked to some of the Wests most noted achievements.\n\nThe Renaissance merged imperial enterprise with Islamic algebra and recently recovered Greek mathematics to precipitate mechanized industry and resource extraction; these in turn made possible the growth of capitalism, the military-industrial complex, and Big Technology. Despite its self-image as objective, Zwicky argues, the Wests style of thought is not politically neutral, but intensely anthropocentric. It has led those who adopt it to regard the more-than-human world as nothing more than timber licences and .