The Vision of Richard Weaver

ISBN-13: 9781560002123 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 250 str.

Joseph Scotchie

Opis

The Vision of Richard Weaver is the first collection of essays about the seminal thinker. It examines 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.

Spis treści

Introduction: From Weaverville to Posterity 1. The Vision of Richard Weaver 2. Southern Thought and National Materialism 3. Richard M. Weaver and the Metaphysics of Property 4. The Mind of Richard Weaver 5. The South Wisely Perceived 6. Richard M. Weaver on the Nature of Rhetoric: An Interpretation 7. Dialectic Rhetorician 8. Rhetoric and the Tyrannizing Image 9. The Agrarianism of Richard Weaver: Beginnings and Completions 10. A Southern Agrarian at the University of Chicago 11. The Conservativism of Affirmation 12. Stranger in Paradise 13. Looking Before and After 14. Is the Battle Over or Has it Just Begun? the Southern Tradition Twenty Years After Richard Weaver

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.