It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays Berry WendellPaperback
It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays Berry WendellPaperback An impassioned and rigorous appeal for reconnection to the land and human feeling by one of America's most…
Specifikacia It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays Berry WendellPaperback
It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays Berry WendellPaperback
An impassioned and rigorous appeal for reconnection to the land and human feeling by one of America's most heartfelt and humble writers.When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lecture--our nation's highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievement--Wendell Berry decided to take on the obligation of thinking again about the problems that have engaged him throughout his long career. As a poet and writer he understood already that much can be gleaned from looking at the vocabulary of these problems themselves and how we describe them. He wanted a fresh start, not only in looking at the groundwork of the problems facing our nation and the earth itself, but in gaining hope from some examples of repair and healing even in these times of Late Capitalism and its destructive contagions.
The result And he settled on "affection" as a method of engagement and solution.
On Liberty and Other Essays