Bill Vitek, professor of philosophy at Clarkson University, is the author of several books, including Promising, Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place, and Applying Philosophy. He lives in Postdam, New York.Wes Jackson, president of the Land Institute and former professor at Kansas Wesleyan and California State universities, is the author of several books, including Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place, Becoming Native to this Place, and Altars of an Unhewn Stone. He lives in Salina, Kansas.
""A refreshing read... The Virtues of Ignorance is an exciting
book, for both the questions it attempts to answer and for the new
questions it inevitably raises... It's a book that opens your eyes
to how much you really can't see." --Lexington Herald-Leader"
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""Demonstrating that knowledge-based worldviews are more dangerous
than useful, the book looks closely at the relationship between the
land and the future generations who will depend on it." --Abstracts
of Public Administration, Development, and Environment" --
""Every now and again you come across a read you feel certain will
shift the landscape of thought in unpredictable ways. The Virtues
of Ignorance is likely to raise a few eyebrows in the scientific
community and the fallout is likely to be both stimulating and
positive." --Claude Stephens, Forest Echo" --
""If we want to avoid a tumbledown fate for our planet, one that
equals the tumbledown state of our farms, we would do well to heed
[Vitek and Jackson's] advice." -- Tumbledownfarm.blogspot.com"
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""The questions raised throughout the book encourage a pause for
reflection -- on what we think we know and the implications our
knowledge has on the world around us." --International Journal of
Illich Studies" --
""The Virtues of Ignorance is at once subversive, deeply wise, and
enormously significant." --Charlene Spretnak, Resurgence" --
""The Virtues of Ignorance provides an excellent foundation for
environmental reflection, research, and action.... I have little
doubt that [the book] will also raise provocative questions about
the nature of knowledge, the subject of one's research, the style
of one's teaching, and the methods of one's ethics for other
Worldviews readers who necessarily engage with uncertain, limited,
and changing knowledge." --Sarah E. Fredericks, Worldviews" --
""The Virtues of Innocence succeeds in bringing together authors
from a diverse range of backgrounds to form a coherent and
compelling argument for a worldview that acknowledges and works
with the limits to human knowledge.... The new ground opened by
[the book] deserves further examination and discussion, and this
collection serves as a strong introduction to current thinking
about the role of ignorance in human understanding." --Edmund M.
Harris, Agricultural Hum. Values" --
""This is a bid to make ignorance an explicit and powerful
underpinning of a new epistemology. It will attract widespread
attention and potentially be one of those books that show up in
citations for decades to come." -- Bill McKibben, author of Deep
Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future" --
""Utterly fascinating." --Earth Justice In Brief" --
""Virtues of ignorance, such as respect and humility, find eloquent
and persuasive elucidation in these pages." --Choice" --
""When peak oil, climate change, and other imminent events impose
themselves on our industrial economies and begin to undermine the
fundamental premises of our culture, I believe that The Virtues of
Ignorance will rapidly become a crucial part of the literature of
our changing paradigm and will likely be a cornerstone of our new
way of being in the world for several decades." -- Frederick
Kirschenmann, Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center, Iowa State
University" --
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