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Richard M. Weaver

Born

in Asheville, North Carolina, The United States

March 03, 1910

Died

April 01, 1963

Genre

Rhetoric, Philosophy

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Richard Malcolm Weaver, Jr was an American scholar who taught English at the University of Chicago. He is primarily known as an intellectual historian, political philosopher, and a mid-20th century conservative and as an authority on modern rhetoric. Weaver was briefly a socialist during his youth, a lapsed leftist intellectual (conservative by the time he was in graduate school), a teacher of composition, a Platonist philosopher, cultural critic, and a theorist of human nature and society.
Described by biographer Fred Young as a "radical and original thinker", Weaver's books Ideas Have Consequences (1948) and The Ethics of Rhetoric (1953) remain influential among conservative theorists and scholars of the American South. Weaver was also as ...more

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	Ideas Have Consequences 4.13 avg rating — 1,943 ratings — published 1948 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought 4.33 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1968 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ethics of Rhetoric 4.12 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1953 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver by Richard M. Weaver, George Munson Curtis (Editor), James J. Thompson (Editor) 4.30 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Visions Of Order: Cultural Crisis Of Our Time by Richard M. Weaver, Russell Kirk (Foreword) 4.37 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1971 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Defense of Tradition: Collected Shorter Writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929–1963 by Richard M. Weaver, Ted J. Smith (Introduction) 4.47 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Language Is Sermonic: Richard M. Weaver on the Nature of Rhetoric by Richard M. Weaver, Richard L. Johannesen (Editor), Rennard Strickland (Editor) 4.26 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1970 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A rhetoric and composition handbook: (original title, A rhetoric and handbook) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1967 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By Richard M Weaver - A rhetoric and composition handbook: (original title, A rhetoric (1905-06-11) [Paperback] it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Composition;: A course in writing and rhetoric 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.”
― Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

tags: depravity, optimism, realism, tragedy

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“The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.”
― Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

tags: arrogance, fallibility, hubris

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“The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for one’s view of the nature and destiny of man.”
― Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences

tags: relativism, truth, word-of-god

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