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This paper discusses the sense of human fulfillment elaborated in the writings of Wendell Berry. The initial section considers the relationship between freedom and social and geographical rootedness; and the second section considers in greater detail how agriculture and personal fulfillment are intertwined in Berry's work. In the concluding section, consideration is given to the degree to which agriculture may be said to be the proper form of human life.
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James Campbell holds degrees from Temple University and SUNY/Stony Brook, and is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toledo. He works primarily in the areas of American Philosophy and social and political thought. During 1990–91, he will be a Fulbright scholar in the program on American Studies at the University of Innsbruck.
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Campbell, J. Personhood and the land. Agric Hum Values 7, 39–43 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01530603
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01530603