Description: Weaver asserts that the catastrophes of our age are the product not of necessity but of unintelligent choice. The cure, he submits, lies in the right use of man's reason and the recognition that ideas, like actions, have consequences.
Brief description:
Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963) taught English at the University of Chicago and was a frequent contributor to Sewanee Review, Poetry, and Commonweal. He is also the author of The Ethics of Rhetoric, Rhetoric and Composition, and The Southern Tradition at Bay.