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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
Lecture—our nation’s highest honor for distinguished
intellectual achievement—Wendell 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 “affection” 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.
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