1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007361260403321

Autore

Censis

Titolo

Il decentramento dei servizi socio-assistenziali : indagine conoscitiva sullo stato di attuazione del D.P.R. n. 616/1977 nel settore socio-assistenziale / condotta dal Centro studi investimenti sociali (Censis) nel luglio 1981

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : s.e., 1982

Descrizione fisica

III, 411 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Studi, ricerche e documentazioni ; 6

Disciplina

361

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

VI G 180 (6)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461470803321

Titolo

Wendell Berry [[electronic resource] ] : life and work / / edited by Jason Peters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2007

ISBN

0-8131-3765-9

0-8131-7253-5

9786612976285

1-282-97628-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Collana

Culture of the land : a series in the new agrarianism

Altri autori (Persone)

PetersJason <1963->

Disciplina

818/.5409

B

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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