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- Description
- 1 online resource (354 p.)
- Series Statement
- Culture of the land
- Uniform Title
- Virtues of ignorance (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Toward an ignorance-based worldview / Wes Jackson -- The way of ignorance / Wendell Berry -- Ignorance, an inner perspective / Robert Perry -- Human ignorance and the limited use of history / Richard D. Lamm -- Ignorance and know-how / Conn Nugent -- Optimizing uncertainty / Raymond H. Dean -- Toward an ecological conversation / Steve Talbott -- Ignorance and ethics / Anna L. Peterson -- Imposed ignorance and humble ignorance: two worldviews / Paul G. Heltne -- Battle for the soul of ignorance: rhetoric and philosophy in classical Athens / Charles Marsh -- Choosing ignorance within a learning universe / Peter G. Brown -- The path of enlightened ignorance: Alfred North Whitehead and Ernst Mayr / Strachan Donnelley -- Joyful ignorance and the civic mind / Bill Vitek -- I don't know / Robert Root-Bernstein -- Lessons learned from ignorance: the curriculum on medical (and other) ignorance / Marlys Hearst Witte ... [et al.] -- Economics and the promotion of ignorance-squared / Herb Thompson -- Educating for ignorance / Jon Jensen -- Climate change and the limits of knowledge / Joe Marocco -- Can we see with fresh eyes? beyond a culture of abstraction / Craig Holdrege.
- LCCN
- 2007048494
- OCLC
- ssj0000267835
- Title
The virtues of ignorance [electronic resource] : complexity, sustainability, and the limits of knowledge / edited by Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson.
- Imprint
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
- Series
Culture of the land
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Vitek, William, 1957-
Jackson, Wes, 1936-