Introduction: Sustaining virtuous forms -- Attention -- Gratitude -- Humility -- Hope -- Memory -- Fidelity -- Convocation -- Epilogue: Practicing resurrection. "Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence--a mod…
"Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence--a mode of thinking and acting that fosters the health of the earth and its beings. Yet the present industrial economy prioritizes a technical, self-centered way of rel…
"Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence--a mode of thinking and acting that fosters the health of the earth and its beings. Yet the present industrial economy prioritizes a technical, self-centered way of rel…
"Wendell Berry has argued that our most pressing ecological and cultural need is a renewed formal intelligence--a mode of thinking and acting that fosters the health of the earth and its beings. Yet the present industrial economy prioritizes a technical, self-centered way of rel…
Front cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Imagining the Tree of Wisdom -- 2 Standing by Our Words -- 3 Doing Good Work -- Introduction to Part 2 -- 4 Tradition -- 5 Hierarchy -- 6 Geography -- 7 Community -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments …
Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Berry has been eloquently unmasking America's cultural obsession with restless…