Title: The humane vision of Wendell Berry /
Authors: Mitchell, Mark T.; Schlueter, Nathan W.
Publisher: ISI Books,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Berry, Wendell, Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: Wendell Berry--poet, novelist, essayist, critic, farmer--has won the admiration of Americans from all walks of life and from across the political spectrum. His writings treat an extraordinary range of subjects, including politics, economics, ecology, farming, work, marriage, religion, and education. But as this new book shows, such diverse writings are untied by a humane--and profoundly conservative--vision that finds its inspiration in the great moral and literary tradition of the West. In The Human Vision of Wendell Berry, Mark T. Mitchell and Nathan Schlueter bring together a distinguished roster of writers to critically engage Berry's ideas. The volume features original contributions from Rod Dreher, Anthony Esolen, Allan Carlson, Richard Gamble, Jason Peters, Ann Husted Burleigh, Patrick J. Deneen, Caleb Stegall, Luke Schlueter, Matt Bonzo, Michael Stevens, D.G. Hart, Mark Shiffman, and William Edmund Fahey, as well as a letter to Berry by famed novelist Wallace Stegner. Together, these authors situate Berry's ideas within the larger context of conservative thought. His vision stands for reality in its facets and against all reductive isms--for intellect against intellectualism, individuality against individualism, community against communitarianism, liberty against libertarianism.
Contents: Wendell Berry, a placed person / Wallace Stegner -- Marriage in the membership / Anne Husted Burleigh -- Not safe, nor private, nor free : Wendell Berry on sexual love and procreation / Allan Carlson -- An education for membership : Wendell Berry on schools and communities / Richard Gamble -- And for this food, we give thanks / Matt Bonzo -- The third landscape : Wendell Berry and American conservation / Jason Peters -- Wendell Berry and democratic self-governance / Patrick J. Deneen -- First they came for the horses : Wendell Berry and a technology of wholeness / Caleb Stegall -- Living peace in the shadow of war : Wendell Berry's dogged pacifism / Michael R. Stevens -- Wendell Berry's unlikely case for conservative Christianity / D.G. Hart -- The rediscovery of Oikonomia / Mark Shiffman -- Wendell Barry's defense of a truly free market / Mark T. Mitchell -- The restoration of propriety : Wendell Berry and the British distributists / William Edmund Fahey -- The integral imagination of Wendell Berry / Nathan Schlueter -- Earth and flesh sing together : the place of Wendell Berry's poetry in his vision of the human / Luke Schlueter -- If Dante were a Kentucky barber / Anthony Esolen -- Wendell Berry : a latter-day St. Benedict / Rod Dreher.