In Defense of Tradition

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ISBN: 9780865972834 | 0865972834
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Copyright: 1/1/2001

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This new collection of Weaver's shorter writings presents many long out-of-print and never-before-published works that give new range and depth to Weaver's sweeping thought. In all, there are some 126 essays, speeches, book reviews, and editorials.

Introduction

Section 1: Life and Family

``The Weaver Family of North Carolina: The Prospectus of a History''

(6)

Ted J. Smith III

``Address of Dr. Richard M. Weaver, Chicago University''

(4)

``The Pattern of a Life''

(4)

``Kentucky,'' in ``A Panorama of Peace: A Symposium''

(2)

``Looking Over the Magazines,'' 7/24/31

(3)

Clifford Amyx

Richard Weaver

``Looking Over the Magazines,'' 7/31/31

(3)

Clifford Amyx

Richard Weaver

``Looking Over the Magazines,'' 8/7/31

(3)

Clifford Amyx

Richard Weaver

``Looking Over the Magazines,'' 8/14/31

(3)

Clifford Amyx

Richard Weaver

``Looking Over the Magazines,'' 8/21/31

(2)

Clifford Amyx

Richard Weaver

``Up from Liberalism''

(18)

``William Maury Mitchell''

(10)

Ted J. Smith III

Section 2: The Critique of Modernity

``Humanism in an Age of Science''

(12)

Robert Hamlin

``Individuality and Modernity''

(15)

``Life without Prejudice''

(9)

Relativism and the Crisis of Our Times

(8)

Reflections of Modernity

105

(15)

``Review of Henry Steele Commager, the American Mind''

120

(3)

``Introduction'' to William James, Pragmatism (selections)

123

(5)

``Puritanism and Determinism''

128

(4)

Ted J. Smith III

``Review of Charles A. Lindbergh, Of Flight and Life''

132

(2)

``Impact of Society on Mr. Russell''

134

(3)

``Easy Conclusion''

137

(2)

``On Social Science''

139

(2)

``Social Science in Excelsis''

141

(3)

``Science and Sentimentalism''

144

(3)

``Editor's Mail''

147

(1)

``Culture and Reconstruction''

148

(4)

``Proud `City of God'''

152

(2)

``Cold Comfort''

154

(1)

``Dilemma of the Intellectual''

155

(3)

``A Hobble for Pegasus''

158

(3)

``A Further Testament''

161

(6)

Section 3: Education

``Education: Reflections On''

167

(9)

``Colleges and Universities''

176

(8)

Education and the Individual

184

(16)

Academic Freedom: The Principle and the Problems

200

(12)

The Role of Education in Shaping Our Society

212

(16)

``To Write the Truth''

228

(8)

``Looking for an Argument''

236

(8)

Manuel Bilsky

McCrea Hazlett

Robert E. Streeter

Richard M. Weaver

``Weaver Discusses English Course''

244

(3)

``And for Yale''

247

(1)

``From Poetry to Bitter Fruit''

248

(4)

``Mr. Hutchins as Prophet''

252

(4)

``Flesh for a Skeleton''

256

(2)

``Safe for a While''

258

(2)

``Informed and Urbane''

260

(2)

``Education for What?''

262

(2)

``History or Special Pleading?''

264

(9)

Section 4: Rhetoric and Sophistic

``Parson' Weems: A Study in Early American Rhetoric''

273

(17)

Ted J. Smith III

``Responsible Rhetoric''

290

(10)

Ted J. Smith III

``Propaganda''

300

(12)

``The Best of Everything''

312

(5)

``Concealed Rhetoric in Scientistic Sociology''

317

(15)

``The Lincoln--Douglas Debates''

332

(4)

``The Cultural Role of Rhetoric''

336

(17)

Ted J. Smith III

``Language is Sermonic''

353

(20)

Section 5: The Humanities, Literature, and Language

``The Humanities in a Century of the Common Man''

373

(12)

``Etiology of the Image''

385

(4)

``Relativism and the Use of Language''

389

(16)

``The Importance of Cultural Freedom''

405

(17)

``Introduction'' to James L. Weil, Logarbythms

422

(5)

``Realism and the Local Color Interlude''

427

(5)

George Core

``Review of the Larger Rhetorical Patterns in Anglo-Saxon Poetry''

432

(1)

``Review of Robert Rylee, the Ring and the Cross''

433

(2)

``Review of Ward Moore, Greener Than You Think''

435

(2)

``Review of Hermann Broch, the Sleepwalkers''

437

(2)

``Review of George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays''

439

(2)

``Language and the Crisis of Our Time''

441

(2)

``Christian Letters''

443

(5)

``A Moral in a Word''

448

(2)

``Modern Letters Con and Pro''

450

(7)

Section 6: Politics

``Who Are Today's Conservatives?''

457

(11)

Stuart Gerry Brown

Aaron Director

Richard M. Weaver

``The Prospects of Conservatism''

468

(8)

Ted J. Smith III

``Conservatism and Libertarianism: The Common Ground''

476

(7)

``Conservatism and Liberalism''

483

(12)

Ted J. Smith III

``On Liberty''

495

(1)

Ted J. Smith III

``How to Argue the Conservative Cause''

496

(16)

Ted J. Smith III

``Review of Bertrand de Jouvenel, on Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth''

512

(4)

``Battle for the Mind''

516

(2)

``A Program for Conservatives''

518

(2)

``Review of Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr., the Decline of American Liberalism''

520

(2)

``Which Ancestors?''

522

(2)

``Review of Forrest McDonald, We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution''

524

(4)

``A Great Individualist''

528

(4)

``Anatomy of Freedom''

532

(4)

``The Middle of the Road: Where It Leads''

536

(6)

``The Middle Way: A Political Meditation''

542

(5)

``Roots of the Liberal Complacency''

547

(8)

``Integration is Communization''

555

(4)

``On Setting the Clock Right''

559

(8)

``Mass Plutocracy''

567

(9)

``Review of Leo Baeck, the Pharisees and Other Essays''

576

(2)

``Review of Beatrice Webb, Our Partnership''

578

(2)

``Review of Samuel H. Beer, the City of Reason''

580

(2)

``Review of Daniel Bell (ed.), the New American Right''

582

(2)

``Illusions of Illusion''

584

(6)

``Review of the Diary of Pierre Laval''

590

(3)

``Review of Herbert Feis, the Road to Pearl Harbor''

593

(3)

``Review of Ferdinand A. Hermens, Europe Between Democracy and Anarchy''

596

(3)

``Nehru: Philosopher, Prophet, Politician''

599

(4)

``Review of Edward Crankshaw, Cracks in the Kremlin Wall''

603

(2)

``Review of Amaury de Riencourt, the Coming Caesars''

605

(6)

Section 7: History

``Liberalism with a Ballast''

611

(8)

``Lord Acton: The Historian as Thinker''

619

(14)

``Orbis Americarum''

633

(5)

``Open All the Way''

638

(3)

``The American as a Regenerate Being''

641

(13)

George Core

M. E. Bradford

``Anybody's Guess''

654

(2)

``Inglorious Exit''

656

(2)

``Review of Samuel Flagg Bemis, John Quincy Adams and the Union''

658

(2)

``The Western Star''

660

(4)

``Trumpet-Tongued Foe of Coercion''

664

(3)

``First in Peace''

667

(6)

Section 8: The South

``The Anatomy of Southern Failure''

673

(10)

Ted J. Smith III

``Scholars or Gentlemen?''

683

(9)

``History in a Dry Light''

692

(7)

``The Land and the Literature''

699

(14)

``The Regime of the South''

713

(7)

``Two Diarists'' (ed. Ted J. Smith III)

720

(29)

``Misunderstood Man''

749

(2)

``Person and Journalist''

751

(2)

``Cotton Culture''

753

(2)

``VU Prof. Explores Basic Human Issues''

755

(2)

``VU Prof. Describes Fugitive-Agrarians''

757

(2)

``Reconstruction: Unhealed Wound''

759

(3)

``An Altered Stand''

762

(3)

Bibliography: Published Works of Richard M. Weaver

765

(10)

Index

775

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In Defense of Tradition

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