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Richard M. Weaver

1910-1963 · American scholar of rhetoric and cultural critic at the University of Chicago

Short biography: Richard M. Weaver in Great Lives

About Richard M. Weaver

Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) was an American scholar of rhetoric and English, born in Asheville, North Carolina. He studied at the University of Kentucky and at Vanderbilt, where John Crowe Ransom and the Southern Agrarians influenced him, and earned his doctorate at Louisiana State University with a dissertation on the culture of the postwar South. He taught English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago from 1944 until his death. His other books include The Ethics of Rhetoric (1953) and Visions of Order (1964).

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Ideas Have Consequences

Richard M. Weaver

1948 · Postwar Contemporary · Philosophy

Ideas Have Consequences is a short work of cultural criticism by Richard M. Weaver, a professor of English at the University of Chicago, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1948. Written in the aftermath of the Second World War, it argues that the disorders of the modern West are not accidents but the results of a mistaken philosophical choice made centuries earlier, and it proposes a few modest steps toward recovery.

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