 First edition | |
| Author | Daniel Quinn |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Harmony Books |
Publication date | 1999 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 202 pp |
| ISBN | 0-609-60490-2 |
| OCLC | 45617313 |
| Preceded by | Ishmael, The Story of B, My Ishmael |
Beyond Civilization (subtitled Humanity's Next Great Adventure) is a book by Daniel Quinn written as a non-fiction follow-up to his acclaimed Ishmael trilogy—Ishmael, The Story of B, and My Ishmael—as well as to his autobiography, Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest. Beyond Civilization is written both to illuminate further the arguments and ideas made in his previous books and as a sort of guide to offer possible solutions to the problems he sees with the current state of civilization.
Beyond Civilization is Quinn's foremost text on new tribalism. The book contains one-page explorations into a variety of topics, in the form of reflections, parables, autobiographical accounts, essay-style writings, and deliberate clarifications of ideas introduced in his previous books.