The art of the commonplace

the agrarian essays of Wendell Berry

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the agrarian essays of Wendell Berry

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Shoemaker & Hoard
Language
English
Pages
330

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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
August 5, 2003, Shoemaker & Hoard
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The art of the commonplace: agrarian essays of Wendell Berry
2002, Counterpoint
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The art of the commonplace: the agrarian essays of Wendell Berry
2002, Shoemaker & Hoard
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The challenge of Berry's agrarian vision / Norman Wirzba
A native hill
The unsettling of America
Racism and the economy
Feminism, the body, and the machine
Think little
The body and the earth
Men and women in search of common ground
Health is membership
Sex, economy, freedom, and community
People, land and community
Conservation and local economy
Economy and pleasure
Two economies
The whole horse
The idea of a local economy
A bad big idea
Solving for pattern
The use of energy
The gift of good land
Christianity and the survival of creation
The pleasures of eating

Edition Notes

Published in
Washington, D.C

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3554.A86D43 2003, PS3554.A86 D43 2003, S441 .B47 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 330 p. ;
Number of pages
330

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17093067M
ISBN 10
1593760078
LCCN
2003013385, 2003025210
OCLC/WorldCat
52509413
Library Thing
189252
Goodreads
146151

First Sentence

"The hill is not a hill in the usual sense."

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