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

• Pubblicazione: Lexington, : University Press of Kentucky, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
• Disciplina: 818/.5409; B
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: PetersJason <1963->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Wendell Berry
• ISBN: 0-8131-3765-9; 0-8131-7253-5; 9786612976285; 1-282-97628-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461470803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Culture of the land.