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Title: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community : Eight Essays by Wendell Berry ISBN: 0-679-75651-5 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 13 September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best...
Comment: ...thinkers I was exposed to in high school while researching for an essay report. His well-balanced thoughts on various agrarian and community-based themes are the most eloquent I have found from a single writer. His words and rationales spring from the land and argue pursuasively for more restraint for the betterment of the world by the human animal. The most compelling living philospher I know of is Wendell Berry. I recommend all of his written works.
Rating: 5
Summary: One to read slowly and thoughtfully
Comment: This highly stimulating collection of Berry's essays contains some of the most important things Berry has written. The essay "Christianity and the Survival of Creation" is one of the most insightful and important theological statements of our day. It is in everyone's best interest to work to see that the organized churches take Berry's essay to heart. Of course, the book is also notable for the beauty of Berry's writing -- not coincidental, since he argues here and elsewhere for a recovery of the idea of work as sacred and for beauty as a measure of "right livelihood."
Rating: 5
Summary: One of those "if you don't read any other book this year...
Comment: If you're a content postmodern, don't read this book. It will leave you unsettled. The title essay from Berry's book is worth the price of the whole book. If you were to read only one book this coming year to guide both your thinking and your behavior (aside from the Bible which undergirds Berry's thinking), this would be a great choice. If the following snippet from the title essay resonates with your spirit, you'll want to pick this one up.
"If you destroy the ideal of the "gentle man" and remove from men all expectations of courtesy and consideration toward women and children, you have prepared the way for an epidemic of rape and abuse. If you depreciate the sanctity and solemnity of marriage, not just as a bond between two people, but as a bond between those two people and their forebears, their children, and their neighbors, then you have prepared the way for an epidemic of divorce, child neglect, community ruin, and loneliness. If you destroy the economies of household and community, then you destroy the bonds of mutual usefulness and practical dependence without which the other bonds will not hold."
Why is it that we have our best thinkers like Berry running old family farms, and our worst thinkers running our national government? Sigh.
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Title: What Are People For? by Wendell Berry ISBN: 0865474370 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World (The New Patriotism Series, Vol. 1) by Wendell Berry ISBN: 0913098604 Publisher: Orion Society Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry, Norman Wirzba ISBN: 1593760078 Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry ISBN: 0871568772 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Pub. Date: 19 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry ISBN: 1593760000 Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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