Saturday, June 28, 2008

Readings on Community

I've been reading Wendell Berry's Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community and just finished reading a booklet called "A Place Called Community" written in the 70s by a man who lived and worked at a Quaker run intentional community. The Berry is excellent. Everyone interested in the function of community should read it...it deals not just with community, but with food, conservation, the problems with the industrialized, televised, and commercialized American culture, and explains how they link together. Both books attempt to define what community is and is not and what its limits are, just so you don't jump in with too idealistic a fervor.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

hey, I just put that book on my summer reading list : )

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