The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
A Literature, Nonfiction, Essays book. The corporate approach to agriculture or manufacturing or medicine or war increasingly undertakes to help at the risk of...
The continuing war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the political sniping engendered by the Supreme Court nominations, Terry Schiavo — contemporary American society is characterized by divisive anger, profound loss, and danger. Wendell Berry, one of the country's foremost cultural critics, addresses the menace, responding with hope and intelligence in a series of essays that tackle the major questions of the day. Whose freedom are we considering when we speak of the “free market” or “free enterprise?” What is really involved in our National Security? What is the price of ownership without affection? Berry answers in prose that shuns abstraction for clarity, coherence, and passion, giving us essays that may be the finest of his long career.
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- Pages: 192 pages
- ISBN: 9781593761196 / 1593761198
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Our governments have only occasionally recognized the need of land and people to be protected against economic violence. It is true that economic violence is not always as swift, and is rarely as bloody, as the violence of war, but it can be devastating nonetheless. Wendell Berry, The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays The corporate approach to agriculture or manufacturing or medicine or war increasingly undertakes to help at the risk of harm, sometimes of great harm. And once the risk of harm is appraised as acceptable, the result often is absurdity: We destroy a village in order to save it; we destroy freedom in order to save it; we destroy the world in order to live in it. Wendell Berry, The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays
Reading this book is like looking through a window into the worlds of agriculture and conservation. It is an extraordinarily clear window- Berry combines his personal experience as a farmer in Kentucky with the experience of his neighbors and friends. He evaluates the environment of America in a calm, level way, honestly evaluating... One of the clearest, most down to earth, honest, and truest essay collections I've ever read. I have seriously contemplated getting this book for everyone I know and probably will give it to a lot of people. If I were to write, it would be basically the same subject matter and with the same convictions that Wendell writes from. I feel... This is the first Wendall Berry book I've read and it's just a collection of essays. I found many of them to be really good and though provoking. I know nothing about farming or really about nature, so I was a little lost at times.
