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The Way of Ignorance
Wendell Berry
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Includes Courtney White's Essay - "The Working Wilderness: A Call for a Land Health Movement"
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"Wendell Berry is one of America's most valued cultural critics. Since 1960 he has embarked on a long conversation with its citizens: a developing thorough critique often angry and always hopeful. As he notes in the preface to this latest installment, 'The work that I feel best about I have done as an amateur: for love. But in my essays especially I have been motivated also by fear of our violence to one another and to the world, and by my hope that we might do better. If I had not been so reasonably afraid, my essays at least would have been much different and many fewer.' These new essays set aside abstraction in favor of clarity, coherence, and passion, an important new collection that argues for affection and care in this time of loss and profound danger. And in an unusual departure, Mr. Berry has included two essays by colleagues Daniel Kemmis and Courtney White, both at work, in quite different ways, on the issues at hand. This whole book, one of the finest in Wendell Berry's long career, offers an exhilarating call to action."
Contents:
Purchase
Includes Courtney White's Essay - "The Working Wilderness: A Call for a Land Health Movement"
Taken from Inside Flap:
"Wendell Berry is one of America's most valued cultural critics. Since 1960 he has embarked on a long conversation with its citizens: a developing thorough critique often angry and always hopeful. As he notes in the preface to this latest installment, 'The work that I feel best about I have done as an amateur: for love. But in my essays especially I have been motivated also by fear of our violence to one another and to the world, and by my hope that we might do better. If I had not been so reasonably afraid, my essays at least would have been much different and many fewer.' These new essays set aside abstraction in favor of clarity, coherence, and passion, an important new collection that argues for affection and care in this time of loss and profound danger. And in an unusual departure, Mr. Berry has included two essays by colleagues Daniel Kemmis and Courtney White, both at work, in quite different ways, on the issues at hand. This whole book, one of the finest in Wendell Berry's long career, offers an exhilarating call to action."
Contents:
- Preface
- Secrecy vs. Rights
- Contempt for Small Places
- Rugged Individualism
- We Have Begun
- Some Notes for the Kerry Campaign, If Wanted
- Compromise, Hell!
- Charlie Fisher
- Imagination in Place
- The Way of Ignorance
- The Purpose of a Coherent Community
- Quantity vs. Form
- Renewing Husbandry
- Agriculture from the Roots Up
- Local Knowledge in the Age of Information
- The Burden of the Gospels
- Letter to Daniel Kemmis
- Daniel Kemmis Replies
- The Working Wilderness: A Call for a Land Health Movement, by Courtney White