| Description |
xii, 847 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Library of America ; 317.
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| Note |
"Including Life is a Miracle and selections from Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community, Another Turn of the Crank, Citizenship Papers, The Way of Ignorance, What Matters?, Imagination in Place, It All Turns on Affection, Our Only World, The Art of Loading Brush". |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
From sex, economy & community (1993). Conservation and local economy ; Conservation is good work ; Christianity and the survival of creation ; Sex, economy, freedom, and community -- From another turn of the crank (1995). Farming and the global economy ; Conserving forest communities ; Health is membership -- Life is a miracle: an essay against modern superstition (2000). Igorance ; Propriety ; On Edward O. Wilson's consilience ; Materialism ; Materialism and mystery ; Imperialism ; Reductionism ; Creatures as machines ; Originality and the "two cultures" ; Progress without subtraction ; Reduction and art ; A conversation out of school ; Toward a change of standards ; Some notes in conclusion -- From citizenship papers (2003). A citizen's response ; Thoughts in the presence of fear ; The failure of war ; In distrust of movements ; The total economy ; Two minds ; The whole horse ; The Argrarian standard ; Conservationist and Agrarian -- From the way of Ignorance (2005). Secrecy vs. Rights ; contempt for small places ; Compromise, hell! ; Charlie Fisher ; The way of ignorance ; Quantity vs. form ; Renewing husbandry ; The burden of the gospels -- From what matters? (2010). Money versus goods ; Faustian economics -- From imagination in place (2010). Imagination in place ; American imagination and the civil war ; Sweetness preserved ; The uses of adversity ; God, science, and imagination -- From it all turns on affection (2012). It all turns on affection ; About civil disobedience -- From our only world (2015). Paragraphs from a notebook ; The commerce of violence ; A forest conversation ; Local economies to save the land and the people ; Caught in the middle ; Our deserted country ; On being asked for "a Narrative for the future" -- From the art of loading brush. The thought of limits in a prodigal age ; The presence of nature in the natural world: A long conversation. |
| Summary |
Writing with elegance and clarity, Wendell Berry is a compassionate and compelling voice for our time of political and cultural distrust and division, whether expounding the joys and wisdom of nonindustrial agriculture, relishing the pleasure of eating food produced locally by people you know, or giving voice to a righteous contempt for hollow innovation. He is our most important writer on the cultural crisis posed by industrialization and mass consumerism, and the vital role of rural, sustainable farming in preserving the planet as well as our national character. Now, in celebration of Berry's extraordinary six-decade-long career, Library of America presents a two-volume selection of his nonfiction writings prepared in close consultation with the author. This first volume collects thirty-three essays from nine different books, including his first, The Long-Legged House (1969), What are People For? (1990), with its still provocative essay "Why I am Not Going to Buy a Computer," and the complete text of his now classic The Unsettling of America (1975), whose argument about the enormous ecological, economic, and human costs of industrial agriculture has, as the author notes, "not had the happy fate of being proved wrong. |
| Subject |
American essays.
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Essays.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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| Added Author |
Shoemaker, Jack, 1946- editor.
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Wilson, Edward O.
Consilience.
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| Added Title |
Essays. Selections.
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Essays, 1993-2017 |
| ISBN |
9781598536089 |
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1598536087 |
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