Wendell Berry : life and work / edited by Jason Peters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peters, Jason, 1963-

Series:

Culture of the land.

Culture of the land : a series in the new agrarianism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berry, Wendell, 1934-.

Berry, Wendell.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essayist, social critic, poet, ""mad farmer,"" novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies facile labels. With his unique perspective and far-reaching vision, Berry poses complex questions about humankind and our relationship to the land and offers simple but profound solutions. Berry's essays, novels, and poems give voice to a provocative but consistent philosophy, one that extends far beyond its agrarian core to include elements of sociology, the natural sciences, politics, religion, philoso

Contents:

Introduction/ Jason Peters

Ain't they the berries! / Ed McClanahan

Wendell Berry on war and peace ; or, Port William versus the empire / Bill Kauffman

Words addressed to our condition exactly / Scott Russell Sanders

The best noise in the world / Donald Hall

Wendell Berry's political vision / Kimberly K. Smith

How Wendell Berry single-handedly preserved three hundred years of agrarian wisdom / David Kline

Memory and hope in the world of Port William / John Leax

Politics, nature, and value in Wendell Berry's "art of the commonplace" / Eric Trethewey

Berry Britannica / John Lane

Wendell Berry and the twentieth-century agrarian "series" / Allan Carlson

A citizen of the real world / Bill McKibben

Sexuality and the sacramental imagination : it all turns on affection / P. Travis Kroeker

A practical education : Wendell Berry the professor / Morris A. Grubbs

An economy of gratitude / Norman Wirzba

Letters from a humble radical / Wes Jackson

Wendell Berry and the limits of populism / Erich T. Freyfogle

Hemingway's Nick and Wendell Berry's art / David Crowe

At his desk as on his land / Hayden Carruth

Wendell Berry and the traditionalist critique of meritocracy / Jeremy Beer

Looking the technological gift horse in the mouth / Sven Birkerts

Wendell Berry : agrarian artist / Gene Logsdon

Education, heresy, and the "deadly disease of the world" / Jason Peters

Wendell's window and the wind's eye / James Baker Hall

The art of buying nothing / Barbara Kingsolver

Fidelity / Katherine Dalton

Wendell Berry and the alternative tradition in American political thought / Patrick J. Deneen

A long shelf / Jack Shoemaker

Afterword / George Core.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-334) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612976285

9780813137650

0813137659

9780813172538

0813172535

9781282976283

1282976281

OCLC:

707092600