The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Binding: Kindle Edition
Format: Kindle eBook
Label: Counterpoint Press
Languages:EnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Counterpoint Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 337
Publication Date: March 31, 2002
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Release Date: March 31, 2002
Studio: Counterpoint Press

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Product Description:
Collected here for the first time, the essential essays from Wendell Berry's writings on agrarianism, agriculture, and community. Together these twenty-one essays offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped around five themes--geobiography, an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, and agrarian religion--they provide an excellent introduction to the wide range of Wendell Berry's work. They also demonstrate that Berry's writing promotes a clearly defined agrarian vision compelling to those dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, ill health, and destructiveness of media-driven culture. Readers will find in these essays illuminating discussions on questions such as: Why is agriculture becoming culturally irrelevant, and at what cost? What are the forces of social disintegration, and how might they be reversed? How might men and wome n live together in ways that are to the benefit of both? And how does the corporate takeover of social institutions and economic practices contribute to the destruction of human and natural environments?
Whether it be through his staunch support of local economies, his defense of farming communities, or his call for family integrity, Berry emerges as the champion of responsibilities and priorities that serve the health, vitality, and happiness of the whole community of creation.

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