Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms

by Jeffrey Bilbro

Book Overview

For over fifty years, 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 relating to the world that often demands and rewards busyness over thoughtful observation, independence over relationships, and replacing over repairing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813176409
• ISBN13: 9780813176406
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher