Essential Agrarian Reader (eBook)

The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land

Norman Wirzba (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2003
296 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-3831-2 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Eminently quotable and passionately argued essays"e; on living in harmony with the earth and each other, by Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, and more (Library Journal, starred review). Includes a Foreword by Barbara KingsolverA compelling worldview with advocates from around the globe, agrarianism challenges the shortcomings of our industrial and technological economy. Not simply focused on farming, the agrarian outlook encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote the health of land, community, and culture. Agrarianism reminds us that no matter how urban we become, our survival will always be inextricably linked to the precious resources of soil, water, and air. Combining fresh insights from the disciplines of education, law, history, urban and regional planning, economics, philosophy, religion, ecology, politics, and agriculture, these original essays develop a sophisticated critique of our culture's current relationship to the land, while offering practical alternatives. Leading agrarians, including Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, Brian Donahue, Eric Freyfogle, and David Orr, explain how our goals should be redirected toward genuinely sustainable communities. These writers call us to an honest accounting and correction of our often-destructive ways. They suggest how our society can take practical steps toward integrating soils, watersheds, forests, wildlife, urban areas, and human populations into one great system a responsible flourishing of our world and culture.

Autor

lt;P>Norman Wirzba, associate professor and chair of the philosophy department at Georgetown College, is the author of The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age and editor of The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.6.2021
• Vorwort: Barbara Kingsolver
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: agrarian economics • agrarian philosophy • agriculture and ethics • environmentalism and spirituality • food and ethics • healthy agriculture • sustainable agriculture • Sustainable Food Production • urban agrarianism • wendell berry
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-3831-0 / 0813138310
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-3831-2 / 9780813138312