Barbarians in the Saddle: Intellectual Biography of Richard M. Weaver

ISBN-13: 9781138507524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 161 str.

Joseph A. Scotchie

Opis

Ideas Have Consequences and Visions of Order examine the problem of life in "megalopolis" where the best of everything is promised to the restless masses by their leaders and a cradle-to-grave social security state results in dangerous levels of decadence, resentment, and the loss of civility and culture.

Spis treści

Introduction to the American Edition, A Local Habitation, Acknowledgments, Preface, Chapter 1 ST JAMES’S, Chapter 2 POTTENEWTON, Chapter 3 NEWPORT STREET, Chapter 4 HUNSLET, HOLBECK AND BEYOND, Chapter 5 INTERLUDE : LEEDS AT LARGE, Chapter 6 JACK LANE, Chapter 7 COCKBURN, Chapter 8 UNIVERSITY, INDEX, A Sort of Clowning, Acknowledgments, Preface, PART ONE: THE WAR YEARS, 1 Oswestry to the Otranto 1940—2, 2 North Africa and Pantelleria 1942—3, 3 Naples 1943—6, PART TWO: WANDERING TEACHER, 4 Redcar and Marske 1946—9, 5 Hull: Settings and Settling In 1949—59, 6 Teaching-and-Writing The 1950s, 7 Interlude — USA 1956—7, PART THREE: TAKING STOCK, 8 ‘There’s no Vocabulary’: on Family Life, 9 A Shape Proper to Itself?: On Writing a ‘Life and Times’, Index, An Imagined Life, Acknowledgments, Preface, PART ONE: PROVINCIAL AND NATIONAL: THE 1960s, 1 The Delta: Going Public, 2 Mild Midlands: Leicester, 1959—64, 3 Picked Up By the Tide: Lady Chatterley's Lover and the Pilkington Report, 1960—2, 4 Great Hopes from Birmingham, 1962—70, 5 Expansion and Permissiveness: The University Liberated?, PART TWO: INTERNATIONAL LIFE AND BACK TO BRITAIN: THE 1970s AND 1980s, 6 A World Apart: UNESCO, 1970—5, 7 The Great Tradition Revisited: Goldsmiths’, 1976—84, 8 Culture, Communications, Censorship Revisited, 1976—91, 9 Lantern on the Stern: Convictions, Language, Growing Old, Index

O autorze

Joseph Scotchie has spent the last thirty years working in journalism as well as teaching. Currently he is an editor for Anton Community Newspaper in Mineola, New York. His writings have appeared in numerous journals, including Chronicles, Modern Age, The American Conservative, and The Thomas Wolfe Review. In addition his books include Barbarians at the Saddle, Thomas Wolfe Revisited, and Street Corner Conservative: Patrick J. Buchanan and His Times.