The Art of the Commonplace

"Winderbury is all truth, creative, and noble." - Washington Post

This is the first major article to summarize Wendellberry's efforts on agriculture, agriculture and community.

These 21 articles together provide an alternative to agriculture to our dominant city culture. Five themes of geography, agricultural cultural criticism, agricultural base, agricultural economics, and agricultural religion are excellent introduction books of Wendelberry's extensive research. They also showed that Bury's writings promote a well-defined agricultural vision, which is pressured, uneasy, harmful to health, and appeals to those who destroy media-led culture It is.

The reader will find a discussion about the next question in these articles. Why agriculture is culturally unrelated, how much is it? What is the power of social collapse? How are they inverted? How do men and women live together to benefit both? How are companies taking over social institutions and economic practices that contribute to the destruction of human beings and the natural environment? Through consistent support to the local economy, his defense of the agricultural community, or his call for family integrity, Berry became a proponent of responsibility and priorities that will serve the health, vitality and well-being of the community as a whole It was.

Wendell berry is the author of more than 50 poems, novels, essays. He recently won the National Humanities Medal, the Southern Writers Scholarship's Cleanth Brooks Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Louis Bromfield Institute Award. He lives and works with his wife Tanya Berry, his hometown of Kentucky and his children and grandchildren.

NORMAN WIRZBA is an associate professor of philosophy at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky. He has received numerous awards and scholarships, and his work is published in numerous magazines and magazines. He is an editor of "God's paradise: Ecological era religious renewal" (Oxford University Press) and "Fundamental land readers: The future of culture, community, and land" (Kentucky University Press). He lives in Kentucky with his wife and four children.

"Winderbury is all truth, creative, and noble." - Washington Post

"(Berry's words are shining with craftsmen's gentle wisdom. He is deeply thinking about contradictions and miracles of life." Christian Science Monitor

"Berry is a traditional philosopher, poet, novelist, and essayist of Emerson and Thoreau, like Mr. Thore, he marched to various drummers, so pay attention to drummers if they do not move forward "- San Francisco Chronicle

"The best essestist currently working in the United States" - author of Hayduke Lives, Edward Abbey

The center of Berry's paper is a severe criticism of consumerism culture and industrial business practice. Where our ancestors and the land are united, we will get along with the land. "Ordinary art" includes prophetic points where Berry takes the form of a small prophet and beat the repentance drum in front of a huge facility. "It is possible to create an economy that gives the impression that bad habits are necessary and that it is actually reasonable, as our current economy is short-sighted and the accounting period is very short. When we oppose what we call "nature", we use competitiveness as our dominant principle of reality interpretation and understanding of the economy; we do not know, it is virtue. Principle of control and virtue, it is probably impossible to control, which is very difficult to control

I highly appreciate and support the criticism of "ordinary art", but I think that these conclusions are essentially utopian. In other words, the berry urge to reconnect with nature seems somewhat similar to arguing that humans should return to somewhere in the fall and live a reconciled life in the creation of God. According to my estimation, this reduction has greatly changed the relationship between man and nature. In fact, the record of industry advantage is poor. Nevertheless, management of the biblical mission does not deny the possibility of development. As with most things, the extremes on both sides of the economic debate are in an unsustainable position. Business provides valuable opportunities to help people in need; the regional economy associated with nature reminds humans that it is a creature, not a creator