The Vision of Richard Weaver

by Scotchie,Joseph A.

• ISBN13: 9781560002123
• ISBN10: 1560002123
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-09-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Richard M. Weaver was one of the founders of modern conservatism. He is an enduring intellectual figure of twentieth-century America. Weaver was dedicated to examining the dual nature of human beings and the quest for civilized communities in a corrupted age that believed in the religion of science and in the "natural goodness" of man. The Vision of Richard Weaver is the first collection of essays about this seminal thinker.
Thirty years after his untimely death, Richard Weaver remains a heroic figure to many conservatives and traditionalists concerned about the state of American culture. Now a new generation of readers can understand the importance of this pioneer of thought. The Vision of Richard Weaver will be of significant value to political theorists, philosophers, and students of American civilization.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Weaverville to Posterity	p. 1
Prologue: Up from Liberalism	p. 19
Richard Malcolm Weaver Chronology	p. 37
The Vision of Richard Weaver	p. 41
Southern Thought and National Materialism	p. 53
Richard M. Weaver and the Metaphysics of Property	p. 61
The Mind of Richard Weaver	p. 77
The South Wisely Perceived	p. 85
Richard M. Weaver on the Nature of Rhetoric: An Interpretation	p. 93
Dialectic Rhetorician	p. 111
Rhetoric and the Tyrannizing Image	p. 119
The Agrarianism of Richard Weaver: Beginnings and Completions	p. 133
A Southern Agrarian at the University of Chicago	p. 145
The Conservativism of Affirmation	p. 163
Stranger in Paradise	p. 193
Looking Before and After	p. 197
Is the Battle Over...Or Has It Just Begun? The Southern Tradition Twenty Years After Richard Weaver	p. 207
Selected Bibliography	p. 225
About the Contributors	p. 231
Index	p. 235
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