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When Life is Category over Character
Reading Wendell Berry in the 21st century is strange, mainly because much of what he wrote in the 1990s (and even the 1980s) is still relevant today. I think it’s relevant, even if only as a reminder of the way … Continue reading
Between Parties and Politics
Lately I’ve been reading some of Wendell Berry’s older essays, most of them dating to the 1980s and 90s. The first collection that I read, Another Turn of the Crank, begins with an interesting acknowledgment, even and especially twenty years … Continue reading
Once More with Affection
Wendell Berry’s case for affection is an interesting and potent one, especially in light of a contemporary culture that seems content on consuming itself. And because of its limited use, affection could be a term that helps reinvigorate something vital … Continue reading
Epistemological Humility
Throughout his lecture on life in light of affection, Berry attempts to remind us of the significance of the local and the personal. Certain kinds of knowledge, certain kinds of ways of life, are ultimately antithetical to “the good life.” … Continue reading
Two Kinds of Knowledge
Abstraction is a powerful thing. It works in favor of whoever can wield it, really. Wendell Berry knows this, particularly when it comes to how we see the places around us (just as much as the people, really). In his … Continue reading
The Root and Fruit of Affection
Yesterday I wrote a bit about Wendell Berry’s “rescue” of imagination as preparation for understanding the importance of affection (which I will take as at least a form of what others might call love). Both terms are used by Berry … Continue reading
Affection is Rooted in Imagination
What’s been interesting to me over the last few years of thinking through things like James K. Smith’s cultural liturgies concept (teased out well in You Are What You Love) is how the idea of what you love and how … Continue reading
Categories of Conversations
I’m about a week into Sherry Turkle’s Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. As is often the case when reading about a given topic, you start to notice it everywhere once it’s on your radar. So … Continue reading
Berry and the Interlocking World
I really like how N. T. Wright thinks of heaven and earth as a kind of “interlocking reality.” Both are important, essential in the way things are made. And I especially like how Wendell Berry catches something like it in … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 