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Steps toward Restoration: The Consequences of Richard Weaver's Ideas
by Ted J. Smith III. 302 pgs.

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An appreciation of the modern philosopher & University of Chicago English professor, Richard M. Weaver, & an analysis of the continuing relevance of his best known work, Ideas Have Consequences. This 50th Anniversary essay collection is edited by Weaver's authorized biographer & includes entries by various colleagues, friends, & academics who were influenced by Weaver's monumental cultural critique.

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Preface

How Ideas Have Consequences Came to Be Written

Endnotes

Richard Weaver: Friend and Colleague

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Ideas Have Consequences Fifty Years Later

Endnotes

Ideas Have Consequences and the Crisis of Modernity

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The Influence of Ideas Have Consequences on the Conservative Intellectual Movement in America

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Ideas Have Consequences as a Masterwork of Rhetoric

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Consequences in the Provinces: Ideas Have Consequences Fifty Years After

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The Ideas of Richard Weaver

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The Legacy of Richard Weaver

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About the Contributors
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Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time
by Richard M. Weaver. 153 pgs.

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This classic work by the author of Ideas Have Consequences boldly examines the intellectual roots of our current cultural crisis.

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Foreword

Preface

Endnotes

One: The Image of Culture

Two: Status and Function

Three: The Attack Upon Memory

Four: The Cultural Role of Rhetoric

Five: Forms and Social Cruelty

Six: A Dialectic on Total War

Seven: Gnostics of Education

Eight: The Reconsideration of Man
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The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought (Chap. Six "Agrarian in Exile: Richard M. Weaver and the Philosophy of Order")
by Paul V. Murphy. 351 pgs.

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In 1930, a group of southern intellectuals led by John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren published "I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. A stark attack on industrial capitalism and a defiant celebration of southern culture, the book has raised the hackles of critics and provoked passionate defenses from southern loyalists ever since. As Paul Murphy shows, its effects on the evolution of American conservatism have been enduring as well.
Tracing the Agrarian tradition from its origins in the 1920s through the present day, Murphy shows how what began as a radical conservative movement eventually became, alternately, a critique of twentieth-century American liberalism, a defense of the Western tradition and Christian humanism, and a form of southern traditionalism--which could include a defense of racial segregation. Although Agrarianism failed as a practical reform movement, its intellectual influence was wide-ranging, Murphy says. This influence expanded as Ransom, Tate, and Warren gained reputations as leaders of the New Criticism. More notably, such "neo-Agrarians" as Richard M. Weaver and M. E. Bradford transformed Agrarianism into a form of social and moral traditionalism that has had a significant impact on the emerging conservative movement since World War II.

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

The Rebuke of History

Introduction: The Rebuke of History

Chapter One: The Radical Conservatism of I'll Take My Stand

Chapter Two: The Intellectual Origins of Agrarianism

Chapter Three: Agrarianism, 1930–1940

Chapter Four: Donald Davidson's Southern Regionalism

Chapter Five: Agrarianism and the Conservative Movement

Chapter Six: Richard M. Weaver and the Philosophy of Order

Chapter Seven: Identity, History, and Pragmatic Agrarianism

Chapter Eight: The Agrarian Tradition, Southern Identity, and the Modern South

Epilogue: Of Southern Conservatism and Agrarianism

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Inventing Southern Literature (Chap. II "Richard Weaver and the Outline of Southern Literary History")
by Michael Kreyling. 206 pgs.

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A skeptical view of the way the mainstream has defined & studied southern literature.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

I: The South of the Agrarians

II: Richard Weaver and the Outline of Southern Literary History

III: Race, Literature, and History in the Work of Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

IV: Southern Literature Anthologies and the Invention of the South

V: African-American Writers and Southern Literary History

VI: Southern Women Writers and the Quentin Thesis

VII: Southern Writing Under the Influence of William Faulkner

VIII: Parody and Post-Southernness

IX: The Invention of the South and the Culture War

Works Cited

Index
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Essays on Individuality ("Individuality and Modernity" by Richard M. Weaver begins on p. 63)
by Felix Morley. 274 pgs.

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Introduction

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A Question of Elbow Room

Some Biological Aspects Of Individualism

Individuality and Modernity

Individuality and the General Will

Individuality Vs. Equality

Individuality and Its Significance In Human Life

The Historian and the Individual

Capitalism and Freedom

The Creative Powers of a Free Civilization

Individuality in American History

As a Man Thinketh

Collectivism and Individualism

Index of Names

Index of Subjects
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Anthology of Conservative Writing in the United States, 1932-1960 ("Roots of the Liberal Complacency" by Richard M. Weaver begins on p. 54)
by A. Heinsohn G. Jr. 411 pgs.

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Prologue

I The Start of Human Freedom In the United States of America

Ii The Death Struggle Begins In America

The Battle for Freedom

Iii How Did It Ever Happen?

Iv Eggheads Adrift

I'Ve Had Enough Socialism

V Years of Retrogression

Vi Dishonest Dollars and Inflation

The National Debt Peril

Vii Tva

The Hidden Cost of Public Power

A Reply to Tva Director Brooks Hays

Communism American Style

Viii Labor Union Power Unlimited

Senate Committee Testimony

Personal Freedom and Labor Policy

Can a Free Economy Tolerate Union Violence?

The Labor Racket is America's Mafia

The Right to Work

Ix The Social Security Swindle

Social Security is Bankrupt Dan Smoot

Straight Talk

Social Security's Salvage Value

Legislated Security is Bondage

X The Hired Hands of Washington

Payments--Permits--Peasantry

Stop Bureaucracy from Breaking Our Backs? "Not from Here. . . . I Tried," Says Benson

The End of the Road

Xi Foreign Aid and You

Foreign Aid and Economic Progress

Xii Foreign Trade and You

Xiii Education -- Foundations -- Government -- Churches

The Quicksands of the Mind

Foundations

Foundations and Radicalism in Education

Federal Control of Education

No Federal Scholarships, Thank You

Federal Support for Education is Unnecessary

Unnecessary School Aid

Conservatives and Education

Xiv Sparks of Resistance

Repeal Income Taxes

Letters of Protest

The Great Monopoly Myth

Xv Rays of Hope

Ad Hoc Committee Report

Toward a Point of No Return

Epilogue
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Scientism and Values (Chap. 4 "Concealed Rhetoric in Scientistic Sociology" by Richard M. Weaver)
by Helmut Schoeck, James W. Wiggins. 272 pgs.

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The William Volker Fund Series in the Humane Studies

Contributors

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Introduction

1 Social Science and the Problem Of Value

2 Objectivity and Social Science

3 Science and the Studies of Man

4 Concealed Rhetoric in Scientistic Sociology

5 Fiduciary Responsibility and The Improbability Principle

6 Knowledge: Unused and Misused

7 Scientism in the Writing Of History

8 The Mantle of Science

9 Growth, in Biology And In Education

10 The Psychopathology of Scientism

11 Social Science Versus the Obsession Of "Scientism"

12 Social Science as Autonomous Activity

Index

Index
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The Lasting South: Fourteen Southerners Look at Their Home ("The South and the American Union" by Richard M. Weaver begins on p. 46)
by Louis D. Rubin Jr., James Jackson Kilpatrick. 208 pgs.

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Preface

An Image of the South

The Confederate Heritage

The Case for the Confederacy

The South and the American Union

The Land

The Rising Tide of Faith

Woods and Water

The City and the Old Vision

Southern Religion, Mid-Century

Education for the Uncommon Man

The View from the Window

A Yankee in Dixie

Conservatism and the South

The Contributors
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Freedom and Virtue: The Conservative/Libertarian Debate ("Conservatism and Libertarianism" by Richard M. Weaver begins on p. 68)
by George W. Carey. 231 pgs.

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Like no other single work, Freedom and Virtue explores what unites and divides the adherents of these two important American traditions, shedding much light on our current political landscape.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

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Do-It-Yourself Conservatism?

The Twisted Tree of Liberty

Freedom or Virtue?

Uneasy Cousins

The Need for Public Authority

Conservatism and Libertarianism

Conservatism and Libertarianism: Vital Complements

Toward a New Intellectual History

Libertarianism: the Principle of Liberty

Notes

Frank S. Meyer: the Fusionist as Libertarian Manqué

Notes

Differences of Theory and Strategy

A Dispassionate Assessment of Libertarians

Libertarianism as the Philosophy of Moral Freedom

Libertarianism as the Philosophy of Moral Freedom: a Response

Freedom and Virtue: Allies or Antagonists?

Love Versus Freedom

Notes on Contributors
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Twentieth-Century Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources ("Richard M. Weaver (1911-1963)" begins on p. 343)
by Michael G. Moran, Michelle Ballif. 426 pgs.

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Much work has been done on rhetoric and rhetorical theory in the 20th century, with scientists discussing the rhetoric of the scientific method and philosophers debating the rhetoric of the metaphysical tradition. This reference summarizes major trends in rhetoric during the last hundred years. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 40 20th- century rhetoricians, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Edward P. J. Corbett, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Walter J. Ong, and I. A. Richards. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a brief biography, an analysis of the figure's rhetorical theory, and a bibliography of primary and secondary works. The volume concludes with extensive bibliographical material.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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INTRODUCTION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

FRANK AYDELOTTE (1880-1956)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

MIKHAIL BAKHTIN (1895-1975)

NOTES

ROLAND GÉRARD BARTHES (1915-1980)

JAMES A. BERLIN (1942-1994)

NOTES

ANN E. BERTHOFF (1924- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

WAYNE C. BOOTH (1921- )

CONCLUSION

JAMES BRITTON: (1908-1994)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GERTRUDE BUCK: (1871-1922)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

KENNETH DUVA BURKE: (1897-1993)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

FRANCIS CHRISTENSEN (1902-1970)

BIBLIOGRAHY

HÉLÈNE CIXOUS (1937- )

NOTES

ROBERT J. CONNORS (1951- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

EDWARD P. J. CORBETT (1919-1998)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

FRANK J. D'ANGELO (1928- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PAUL DE MAN (1919-1983)

NOTES

JACQUES DERRIDA (1930-)

NOTE

PETER ELBOW (1935- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

JANET EMIG (1928- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

LINDA FLOWER (1944- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

MICHEL FOUCAULT (1926-1984)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ERNESTO GRASSI (1902-1992)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

JÜRGEN HABERMAS (1929- )

NOTES

WINIFRED HORNER (1922-)

BEBLIOGRAPHY

JAMES L. KINNEAVY (1920-1999)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ALBERT KITZHABER (1915- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

RICHARD A. LANHAM (1936--)

NOTE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ANDREA A. LUNSFORD (1942- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

JAMES MOFFETT (1929-1996)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

DONALD M. MURRAY (1924- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

RICHARD OHMANN (1931- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

WALTER J. ONG (1912- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHAÏM PERELMAN (1912-1984)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

I. A. RICHARDS (1893-1979)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES

MINA SHAUGHNESSY (1924-1978)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

STEPHEN E. TOULMIN (1922- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VICTOR J. VITANZA (1940- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Richard M. Weaver (1911-1963)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

W. ROSS WINTEROWD (1930- )

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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