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Foreword by Barbara Kingsolver
A 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. This understanding demands that we become active caregivers of the earth and its life-giving sources.
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 lament the shortsightedness of economic and political ambition, and 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. The Essential Agrarian Reader calls us to celebrate the gifts of the earth, a celebration manifested in honest work and respect for the land.
About the Author
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.
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New Urbanists, Wendell Berry, Sierra Club, United States, Green Revolution, New Urbanism, New York, Clean Water Act, New England, Third World, World War, San Francisco, Aldo Leopold, Vandana Shiva, World Bank, Gene Logsdon, Benjamin Franklin, Brian Donahue, Harvard University Press, Land Institute, New Delhi, North America, Wes Jackson, Marinette County, Oxford University Press New!
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- Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition by Wendell Berry on page 97, page 180, and Back Matter
- The Inward Morning by Henry Greenwood Bugbee on page 80, and page 97
- Property Rights: Volume 11, Part 2 (Social Philosophy and Policy) (v. 11, Pt. 2) by Ellen Frankel Paul on page 237, and page 257
- For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future by Herman E. Daly on page 51, and page 78
- What Are People For?: Essays by Wendell Berry on page 120, and Back Matter
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- The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America by Ben A. Minteer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture (Culture of the Land) by Gary Holthaus in Back Matter
- Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight (The Christian Practice of Everyday Life) by Norman Wirzba in Back Matter
- All Flesh Is Grass: Pleasures & Promises Of Pasture Farming by Gene Logsdon in Front Matter
- What Democracy Looks Like: A New Critical Realism for a Post-Seattle World by Amy Schrager Lang on page 192
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