Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections is a book edited by John Zerzan. The book provides an insight on the harmful effects of civilization and describes the ideas that have given the rise to anarcho-primitivism.The book features writing by Henry David Thoreau, Fredy Perlman, Marshall Sahlins, Chellis Glendinning, Pierre Clastres, Derrick Jensen, Frederick Jackson Turner, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Charles Fourier, Ivan Illich, Ursula K.