Home Economics

by Berry, Wendell

• ISBN13: 9780865472754
• ISBN10: 0865472750
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1987-06-01
• Publisher: North Point Press

Summary

"My work has been motivated," Wendell Berry has written, "by a desire to make myself responsibly at home in this world and in my native and chosen place." In Home Economics, a collection of fourteen essays, Berry explores this process and continues to discuss what it means to make oneself "responsibly at home." His title reminds us that the very root of economics is stewardship, household management. To paraphrase Confucius, a healthy planet is made up of healthy nations that are simply healthy communities sharing common ground, and communities are gatherings of households. A measure of the health of the planet is economicsthe health of its households. Any process of destruction or healing must begin at home. Berry speaks of the necessary coherence of the "Great Economy," as he argues for clarity in our lives, our conceptions, and our communications. To live is not to pass time, but to spend time. Whether as critic or as champion, Wendell Berry offers careful insights into our personal and national situation in a prose that is ringing and clear.

Author Biography

Wendell Berry is the author of thirty-two books of essays, poetry and novels. A native Kentuckian, he lived and taught in New York and California before returning permanently to the Kentucky River region, where he farms on 125 acres in Henry County. He has received numerous awards for his work, including one from the National Institute and Academy of Arts and Letters in 1971, and, most recently, the T.S. Eliot Award.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Letter to Wes Jackson	3	(3)
Getting Along with Nature	6	(15)
Irish Journal	21	(28)
Higher Education and Home Defense	49	(5)
Two Economies	54	(22)
The Loss of the University	76	(22)
Property, Patriotism, and National Defense	98	(14)
Men and Women in Search of Common Ground	112	(11)
Six Agricultural Fallacies	123	(10)
A Nation Rich in Natural Resources	133	(4)
Preserving Wildness	137	(15)
A Good Farmer of the Old School	152	(10)
A Defense of the Family Farm	162	(17)
Does Community Have a Value?	179

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