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Richard Weaver
The Ethics of Rhetoric
Muriwai Books, 2017 (1953).

The great task that lies ahead of us is to persuade our people of the rightness of our ideas. It behooves us, then, to study the art of rhetoric, or persuasion. Richard Weaver’s The Ethics of Rhetoric is a rigorous and intelligent introduction to this vanishing art. Read more …

Published: March 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Graham, articles, dialectic, eros, logos, North American New Right, oratory, originals, Plato, Platonism, rhetoric | 6 Responses

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Dixie Musings:
The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver

Morris V. de Camp

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Richard M. Weaver
Edited by George M. Curtis, III and James J. Thompson, Jr.
The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver
Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund, 1987

Richard Weaver is known for two notable ideas that need to be emphasized. First, he proposed that there is an objective truth, not many truths. Second, he said that things that were true or good in the past are still true and good today. Read more …

Published: March 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blacks in America, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, the South | 3 Responses

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Remembering Richard M. Weaver:
March 3, 1910–April 1, 1963

Greg Johnson

Richard M. Weaver

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America wasn’t always a liberal country. The founders drew more upon classical republicanism than liberalism. In the nineteenth century, the populist movement was decidedly anti-liberal. But the founders and the populists were never consistently anti-liberal, because consistency is the province of intellectuals, not statesmen.

America never had a genuinely anti-liberal intellectual movement until the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s. (The North American New Right is America’s second anti-liberal intellectual movement.) Read more …

Published: March 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged American South, articles, commemorations, conservatism, Greg Johnson, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, rhetoric, Southern Agrarianism | 6 Responses

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Richard Weaver’s Ideas & Their Consequences

James J. O'Meara

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Richard M. Weaver
Ideas Have Consequences
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948
Expanded edition, with a Foreword by Roger Kimball and an Afterword by Ted J. Smith III, 2013.

The defeat of logical realism in the great medieval debate was the crucial event in the history of Western culture …. Read more …

Published: March 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Decline of the West, essays, European prehistory, Frankfurt School, Hegel, Herbert Marcuse, James J. O'Meara, Julius Evola, North American New Right, originals, philosophy, Plato, rhetoric | 3 Responses

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Richard Weaver’s The Southern Tradition at Bay

Spencer J. Quinn

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Richard Weaver
The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought
New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1968

Richard Weaver’s The Southern Tradition at Bay has grown in both poignancy and meaning since its posthumous publishing in 1968. Originally Weaver’s 1943 doctoral dissertation at Louisiana State University, this work offers a survey of the most important postbellum literature produced by Southern writers until 1910 and ties it together with a philosopher’s breadth of vision. Read more …

Published: March 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blacks in America, book reviews, North American New Right, originals, postbellum South, Reconstruction, Spencer J. Quinn, the South | 3 Responses

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Searching for Transcendentals & True Knowledge:
The Enduring Legacy of Richard M. Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences

Quintilian

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There are great thinkers, and then there are great thinkers whose prescience is so acute that they seem to operate on a precognitive, almost prophetic level. Included among the latter category is Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963). Weaver was a professor of English at the University of Chicago when the humanities were taken seriously, and nowhere were they taken more seriously than at UC in the two decades following the end of the Second World War. Read more …