The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
Files
Document Type
Book
Description
Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped around five themes—an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, agrarian religion, and geo-biography—these essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American culture.
Publication Date
2002
Publisher
Counterpoint
City
Washington
State
DC
Award
2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Creative Writing | History
Repository Citation
Berry , W. (2002). The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Washington, DC: Counterpoint.
