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The unsettling of America : culture & agriculture / by Wendell Berry.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : Counterpoint, 2015Edition: First Counterpoint editionDescription: xiv, 240 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 161902599X
  • 9781619025998
Other title:
  • Culture & agriculture
  • Culture and agriculture
Subject(s):
Contents:
Preface -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgments -- The unsettling of America -- The ecological crisis as a crisis of character -- The ecological crisis as a crisis of agriculture -- The agricultural crisis as a crisis of culture -- Living in the future: the "modern" agricultural ideal -- The use of energy -- The body and the earth -- Jefferson, Morrill, and the upper crust -- Margins -- Afterword to the third edition -- Notes.
Summary: Overview: Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land-from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. We continue to suffer loss of community, the devaluation of human work, and the destruction of nature under an economic system dedicated to the mechanistic pursuit of products and profits. Although "this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong," Berry writes, there are good people working "to make something comely and enduring of our life on this earth." Wendell Berry is one of those people, writing and working, as ever, with passion, eloquence, and conviction.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction New 338.1097 B534 Checked out 04/30/2024 33111011319338
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Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land-from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it.

Sadly, his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. Although "this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong," Berry writes, there are people working "to make something comely and enduring of our life on this earth." Wendell Berry is one of those people, writing and working, as ever, with passion, eloquence, and conviction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-240).

Preface -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgments -- The unsettling of America -- The ecological crisis as a crisis of character -- The ecological crisis as a crisis of agriculture -- The agricultural crisis as a crisis of culture -- Living in the future: the "modern" agricultural ideal -- The use of energy -- The body and the earth -- Jefferson, Morrill, and the upper crust -- Margins -- Afterword to the third edition -- Notes.

Overview: Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today's agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land-from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. We continue to suffer loss of community, the devaluation of human work, and the destruction of nature under an economic system dedicated to the mechanistic pursuit of products and profits. Although "this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong," Berry writes, there are good people working "to make something comely and enduring of our life on this earth." Wendell Berry is one of those people, writing and working, as ever, with passion, eloquence, and conviction.

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