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Rooted in the land : essays on community and place /
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 r...
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New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
©1996.
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Table of 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.
- 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.
- 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.