The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love

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Abbey, Edward, 33 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain), 1, 78 agrarianism, 6, 46, 269–70n16, 274n49, 276–77n8, 278n27, 279n30, 280n36, 281n1 authentic personal existence and, 111–13 Bible and, 79, 81, 94–97, 99–100, 108– 15, 141, 203–4, 285n43, 285n45 democratic liberties and, 101–2 freedom from money power and, 58 independence and, 290n27, 295–96n36 land as a gift and, 94–95, 111–16, 142–43 revival of politics and, 57, 76 Sabbath practice and, 95, 113–15 Ammons, A. R., 91 Anderson, Sherwood, 31 anger, 118, 129, 134–36, 171, 198, 206 Angyal, Andrew J., 292n7 Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 18, 137, 256 Aristotle, 61, 201 Nicomachean Ethics, 16–17, 22–23 Ashby, Georgie, 85–86, 291n4 As You Like It (Shakespeare), 300n20 Augustine, Saint, 88 Civitas Dei (City of God), 213 Confessions, The, 156, 217–18 Bahnson, Elizabeth, 287–88n66 Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 278n27 Index Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 178–79, 294– 95nn25–26 Barth, Karl, 296n7 baseball, 13, 15 Basney, Lionel, 300n21 beauty, 169 Balthasar on, 178–80 glory and, 179–81 Weil on, 173–75 Beer, Jeremy, 275–76n2 Bellow, Saul, 44 Berry, John Marshall, 291n31, 293n19 Berry, Tanya, 254–55, 257–58, 264, 282– 83n11 Berry, Wendell on abortion, 102 on body, 27, 78, 81–82, 90, 97–104, 176–77, 287n58, 294n20 Christianity and, 6, 39–42, 77–116 compared to Thoreau, 9, 28–29, 33–39, 274n49 cultural conservativism and, 48, 277n11 decision to leave New York, 10, 14–15, 30–33, 273n41 discipline of the teamster and, 9–12, 14–16, 39–42 on education, 27, 40, 52–53, 182, 219 on “environment,” 10, 26–28, 298n6 on gratitude, 7, 152 on health, 98–99, 300n26 314 Index Berry, Wendell (continued) on hope, 3–4, 9, 24–25, 35–36, 41, 119, 178, 207, 240, 253, 264–67, 301n32 on kindly use, 2, 27–29 on literary criticism, 1, 5, 105 on membership, 21, 25–27, 117, 132– 33, 140–41, 145–50, 167, 219, 233, 266, 295n30, 301n32 pacifism and, 88–89, 284n27, 300n24 on pleasure and economy, 38 on the private-public relationship, 44–49 on propriety, 100–101, 251–52 on racism, 84–86, 153–55, 189–90 repudiation of despair, 240–42, 248 on resources, 65–66 science and, 41, 54–55, 106–8, 278n27, 288n69 on the virtues, 10, 20–21, 41 wilderness and, 29 Berry, Wendell, works of “Against the Nihil of the Age,” 300n20 “Agrarian Standard, The,” 101–2 “Agricultural Journey in Peru, An,” 28 “Agriculture from the Roots Up,” 100 “American Imagination and the Civil War,” 75, 239 Andy Catlett: Early Travels, 7, 151–56, 291n2, 291n4 “Argument for Diversity, An,” 28 “At a Country Funeral,” 260–61 “Below,” 244 “Body and the Earth, The,” 84, 102–3 “Boundary (1965), The,” 138–39, 289– 90n23 “Burden of the Gospels, The,” 77–78, 87–88, 93–94 “Christianity and the Survival of Creation,” 84, 89–90, 93, 95–97 Citizenship Papers, 61, 70 “Citizen’s Response to ‘The National Security Strategy of the United States of America,’ A,” 47, 69–71, 73, 87–89 “Consent (1908), A,” 124–26 “Conservation and Local Economy,” 66–67 “Conservation of Nature and the Preservation of Humanity, The,” 15, 102 Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural, A, 80 “Contrariness of the Mad Farmer, The,” 260 “Country of Marriage, The,” 256–58 “Creation Myth,” 246–47 “Current, The,” 258–59 “Dante,” 1 “Defense of the Family Farm, A,” 66–67, 110 “Design of a House, The,” 254–55 “Discipline and Hope,” 3–4, 35–36, 285n45 “Does Community Have a Value?,” 110, 113 “Don’t Send a Boy to Do a Man’s Work (1891),” 120–24, 259 “Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Agriculture, The,” 27, 29 “Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Character, The,” 26 “Economy and Pleasure,” 38, 90 “Enemies,” 242–43 “Enriching the Earth,” 262–63 “Failure of War, The,” 88–89, 102 “Farmer, Speaking of Monuments, The,” 259 “Fear of Love, The,” 256 “Feminism, the Body, and the Machine,” 13, 34, 38–39, 61–63 “Few Words in Favor of Edward Abbey, A,” 33 “Fidelity (1977),” 25–26, 145–48 “For the Explainers,” 237 “For the Hog Killing,” 259 “Friend of Mine (1967), A,” 23–24 “Gift of Good Land, The,” 81, 85, 94–95, 113–14 “God, Science, and Imagination,” 288n69 “God and Country,” 86 “Half Pint of Old Darling (1920), A,” 126–27 Hannah Coulter, 7, 42, 152, 199...