| Description |
xiii, 285 pages ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index. |
| Contents |
Rediscovering the landscape / William Vitek -- Leave if you can / Harry W. Paige -- The rootless professors / Eric Zencey -- Pseudocommunities / David Ehrenfeld -- From monoculture to polyculture / Paul Custodio Bube -- An Amish perspective / David Kline -- The common life / Scott Russell Sanders -- Living with the land / Helena Norberg-Hodge -- Defending small farms, small towns, and good work / Lynn R. Miller -- Addicted to work / Linda M. Hasselstrom -- Conserving communities / Wendell Berry -- Does community have a value?--a reply / Carl D. Esbjornson. |
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Matfield Green / Wes Jackson -- Dwelling: making peace with space and place / Deborah Tall -- Coming in to the foodshed / Jack Kloppenburg, Jr., John Hendrickson, and G.W. Stevenson -- "Placed" between promise and command / Walter Brueggemann -- Other selves / John A. Livingston -- Aldo Leopold as hunter and communitarian / Franklin A. Kalinowski -- Aldo Leopold and the values of the native / Gregory Cooper -- Biological explanations and environmental expectations / Kristin Shrader-Frechette -- Barn raising / Daniel Kemmis -- Community and the virtue of necessity / William Vitek -- Defining normative community / John B. Cobb, Jr. -- In search of community / Philip Selznick. |
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Redeeming the land / Richard Cartwright Austin -- Creating social capital / Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora -- Re-ruralizing education / David W. Orr -- A public philosophy for civic culture / William M. Sullivan -- Land: challenge and opportunity / Susan Witt and Robert Swann -- Community-supported agriculture: rediscovering community / Jack Kittredge -- Community farming in Massachusetts / Brian Donahue. |
| Summary |
This book is dedicated to the notion that human lives are enriched by participation in a social community that is integrated into the natural landscape of a particular place. The writers explore the loss of community, the philosophical foundations of communities, Amish communities, and the current renewal of community life. |
| Subject |
Communities.
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Community life.
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Communities. (OCoLC)fst01430092
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Community life. (OCoLC)fst00871028
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| Added Author |
Vitek, William, 1957-
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Jackson, Wes, 1936-
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| ISBN |
0300065418 (alk. paper) |
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9780300065411 (alk. paper) |
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0300069618 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780300069617 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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