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It all turns on affection : the Jefferson lecture & other essays
- Title
- It all turns on affection : the Jefferson lecture & other essays / Wendell Berry.
- Author
- Berry, Wendell, 1934-
- Publication
- Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, ©2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 13-532 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 125 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- 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. 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. 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. And he settled on ?affection" as a method of engagement and solution. The result is the greatest speech he has delivered in his six decades of public life. It All Turns on Affection will take its place alongside The Unsettling of America and The Gift of Good Land as major testaments to the power and clarity of his contribution to American thought. We have taken this opportunity to include a small handful of other recent essays and a wonderful conversation between Mr. Berry, his wife Tanya Berry, and the head of the National Endowment of the Humanities Jim Leech, which took place just after the award was announced. The result offers a wonderful continuation of the long conversation Berry has had with his readers over many years and as well as a fine introduction to his life and work.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- It all turns on affection -- Landsman : Jim Leach in conversation with Wendell Berry and Tanya Berry -- Starting from loss -- The future of agriculture -- A man of courage constant to the end -- About civil disobedience -- Maury Telleen, 1928-2011.
- Call Number
- JFD 13-532
- ISBN
- 9781619021143
- 1619021145
- LCCN
- 2012040569
- 40021530745
- 99951157874
- OCLC
- 816654887
- Author
- Berry, Wendell, 1934-
- Title
- It all turns on affection : the Jefferson lecture & other essays / Wendell Berry.
- Imprint
- Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, ©2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 4002153074599951157874
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-532