El fuego del fin del mundo - Kingsnorth, Paul; Berry, Wendell
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It has been half a century since Wendell Berry decided to resign from his position as a professor at New York University to return to his native Kentucky. His academic colleagues looked at him in horror when he told them of his decision, and tried to dissuade him when they saw how one of the most lucid thinkers and writers of his generation was going to live in the pastures. What are you supposed to do there, Wendell? Berry went to the wilds of Kentucky to work and live on a few hectares, and to formulate his thoughts from that supposed periphery, linked in an intimate and daily way with the…mehr

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It has been half a century since Wendell Berry decided to resign from his position as a professor at New York University to return to his native Kentucky. His academic colleagues looked at him in horror when he told them of his decision, and tried to dissuade him when they saw how one of the most lucid thinkers and writers of his generation was going to live in the pastures. What are you supposed to do there, Wendell? Berry went to the wilds of Kentucky to work and live on a few hectares, and to formulate his thoughts from that supposed periphery, linked in an intimate and daily way with the land and its defense. Time seems to have proven him right. Philosopher, novelist, poet and farmer, he is an absolutely referential figure in the United States, in the manner of the country's ecological conscience that seems to speak with the wisdom, calm and lucidity essential to face a time marked by ecocide. Berry challenges traditional ideological categories: the assumed notions of activism and social movement, the very effectiveness of politics on a national and global scale. Towards the right, he denounces the power of companies and capital that devours nature. To the left, he criticizes the rootless individualism that privileges mobility and cosmopolitanism to the detriment of the rural. In this set of essays, Berry talks to us about self-sufficiency (material, but also moral), about the struggles in defense of local culture, about happy sobriety, about the pleasure of working the land, about his absolute rejection of any notion of progress, the abandonment of arrogance, the recovery of amazement in the face of nature... His formula for a good life is simple, and fortunately it does not pretend to be original: go slower, pay attention, take actions and produce things that are worthwhile, love your neighbors, love your home, don't stray too far from it, settle for less, enjoy it more.
Autorenporträt
Wendell Berry (Kentucky, 1934) es filósofo, novelista y poeta, pero también, no lo olvidemos, campesino. Su obra conforma una de las defensas más coherentes y sólidas de un modelo de vida apuntalado en la autogestión, la soberanía alimentaria, y la recuperación de las responsabilidades del ser humano para con la tierra. Es autor de más de sesenta libros: entre sus ensayos cabe destacar A Place on Earth, The Art of the Commonplace o The Way of Ignorance; entre sus novelas, Jayber Crow, The Memory of Old Jack o A World Lost; entre sus poemarios, A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, The Mad Farmer Poems o The Gift of Gravity. Ha sido reconocido con múltiples galardones, entre los que destacan el Premio T. S. Eliot de poesía y el Premio R. C. Holbrooke Literatura de la Paz, así como la Medalla Nacional de las Humanidades, recibida de manos de Barack Obama, o el National Book Critics Circle a toda su carrera.