https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-07-23/look-and-see-listen-and-hear-wendell-berry-and-the-contradictions-of-our-climate/ Insight and inspiration in turbulent times. Wed, 24 Apr 2019 11:11:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-07-23/look-and-see-listen-and-hear-wendell-berry-and-the-contradictions-of-our-climate/#comment-5655 Wed, 24 Apr 2019 11:11:43 +0000 https://www.resilience.org/?p=3472944#comment-5655 […] [xxi] Is Wendell Berry a Romantic?  In some ways he obviously is, but his thought is both eclectic (or non-systematic) and complex enough, maybe at times even dialectical, that he wears this label uncomfortably.  His use of the past, the rustic, and the simple, as well as his focus on unity and wholeness bear a great deal of resemblance with Romanticism, as do his obsessive dualisms.  However, the truth of which he speaks isn’t truth to oneself so if his is a Romanticism, it is one that has interestingly rejected the pursuit of authenticity.  He asks us to be true to a natural or cosmological order, thus making him in some ways a theologian.  While the privileged side of his various dualisms have as their referent something usually too firm and determined for my taste, he will deserve another longer look in the context of a conservative philosophy of excellence, to which I will add the crucial category of producer in due time.  In the meantime, I explore some of these ideas in:  https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-07-23/look-and-see-listen-and-hear-wendell-berry-and-the-con… […]

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