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IT ALL TURNS ON AFFECTION
By: Wendell Berry
The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays
Counterpoint Press
September 2012
On Sale: September 11, 2012
160 pages
ISBN: 1619021145
EAN: 9781619021143
Kindle: B0093JV7EC
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When he accepted the invitation to deliver The Jefferson Lectureβour nationβs highest honor for distinguished intellectual achievementβWendell Berry decided to take on the obligation of thinking again about the problems that have engaged him throughout his long career. He wanted a fresh start, not only in looking at the groundwork of the problems facing our nation and the earth itself, but in gaining hope from some examples of repair and healing even in these times of Late Capitalism and its destructive contagions. As a poet and writer he understood already that much can be gleaned from looking at the vocabulary of these problems themselves and how we describe them. And he settled on βaffectionβ as a method of engagement and solution. The result is the greatest speech he has delivered in his six decades of public life. It All Turns on Affection will take its place alongside The Unsettling of America and The Gift of Good Land as major testaments to the power and clarity of his contribution to American thought.
We have taken this opportunity to include a small handful of other recent essays and a wonderful conversation between Mr. Berry, his wife Tanya Berry, and the head of the National Endowment of the Humanities Jim Leech, which took place just after the award was announced. The result offers a wonderful continuation of the long conversation Berry has had with his readers over many years and as well as a fine introduction to his life and work.
 Media BuzzDiane Rehm Show - NPR - November 14, 2012
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