The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land

By Barbara Kingsolver

Book Overview

Agrarian philosophy, a compelling worldview with advocates around the globe, encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote the sustainable health of the land, community, and culture. In this remarkable anthology are fifteen essays from Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, Brian Donahue, Eric Freyfogle, David Orr, and others. The Essential Agrarian Reader calls us to celebrate the gifts of the earth, through honest work and respect for the land.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000T9OQPC
• ISBN13: 9781593760434
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Catapult
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

an essential resource for all earth dwellers

This collection of writings provides a full spectrum of academic approaches to the subject of living on earth - sustainably. It identifies the consequences of choices, those that are, ultimately, unsustainable, and those that could lead to a liveable future. The fact that my copy was eagerly borrowed by a graduate student economist will serve as an indication of its value and relevance.

The agrarian ethic is essential to our survival

Editor Norman Wirzba's counsel that we cannot live well if we do not attend to the human and non-human "bonds of relationship" is of deep import in an age of mindless surfeit masquerading as self-realization.