Visions of Order
The Cultural Crisis of Our Time
This classic work by the author of Ideas Have Consequences boldly examines the Intellectual roots of our current cultural crisis.
Richard M. Weaver Books
March 3, 1910 – April 1, 1963
A solitary figure in 20th-century American academic life, this author taught English at the University of Chicago. He is known as a shaper of mid-century conservatism and an authority on modern rhetoric. As a Platonist philosopher, he explored the problem of universals and critiqued nominalism, serving as a literary and cultural critic and a theorist of human nature and society. His writings, particularly those on the consequences of ideas and the ethics of rhetoric, remain influential, especially among conservative theorists and scholars of the American South.
Ideas Have Consequences
- 203 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, this title uses words hard as cannonballs to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. It argues that the decline of Western civilization resulted from the rising acceptance of relativism over absolute reality.
Ideje mají následky
- 167 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Kniha obsahuje pozoruhodnou kritiku moderního masového, atomizovaného člověka; industrializace a snahy o naprosté ovládnutí přírody; moderních masmédií; ale i takových kulturních proudů jako jazz v hudbě či impresionismus v malířství; dále smazávání rozdílů mezi muži a ženami, jakož i pomužštění žen; a samozřejmě i laciné víry v pokrok v situaci, kdy se všude kolem šíří barbarství.