The Politics of Rhetoric: Richard M. Weaver and the Conservative Tradition (Contributions in Philosophy) PDF
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THE POLITICS OF RHETORIC Recent Titles in Contributions in Philosophy Make Room for Dreams: Spiritual Challenges to Zionism Haim Gordon Beyond the Secular Mind: A Judaic Response to the Problems of Modernity Paul Eidelberg Question-Reply Argumentation Douglas N. Walton The Last Choice: Preemptive Suicide in Advanced Age C. G. Prado Victims and Values: A History and a Theory of Suffering Joseph A. Amato The Life and Death Debate: Moral Issues of Our Time /. P. Moreland and Norman L. Geisler Being and Becoming: A Critique of Post-Modernism F. F. Centore Women's and Men's Liberation: Testimonies of Spirit Leonard Grob, Riff at Hassan, and Haim Gordon, editors Mind-Body: A Pluralistic Interpretation of Mind-Body Interaction Under the Guidelines of Time, Space, and Movement Adrian C. Moulyn Corporate Responsibility and Legitimacy: An Interdisciplinary Analysis James J. Brummer Begging the Question: Circular Reasoning as a Tactic of Argumentation Douglas N. 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Conservatism—Southern States—History—20th century. 6. Southern States—Historiography. 7. Rhetoric—Philosophy. I. Jacobi, Martin James, 1949- . II. Title. III. Series. PS261.D83 1993 814'.54-^dc20 92-36514 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 1993 by Bernard K. Duffy and Martin Jacobi All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 92-36514 ISBN: 0-313-25713-2 ISSN: 0084-926X First published in 1993 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984). P In order to keep this title in print and available to the academic community, this edition was produced using digital reprint technology in a relatively short print run. This would not have been attainable using traditional methods. Although the cover has been changed from its original appearance, the text remains the same and all materials and methods used still conform to the highest book-making standards. Copyright Acknowledgments The authors and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to reprint the following copy righted material: Richard M. Weaver, Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Times. Baton Rouge: Lou isiana State University Press, 1964. Richard M. Weaver, Language Is Sermonic: Richard M. Weaver on the Nature of Rhetoric, edited by Richard L. Johannesen, Rennard Strickland, and Ralph T. Eubanks. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970. Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948. © 1948 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published 1948. Paperback edition 1984. From Life Without Prejudice and Other Essays by Richard M. Weaver, used by permission of the publisher: Liberty Fund, Inc., 7440 North Shadeland, Indianapolis, IN 46250. Richard M. Weaver, The Ethics of Rhetoric. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1953. Used by per mission of Hermagoras Press. Richard M. Weaver, The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought, edited by George Core and M. E. Bradford. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington, 1968. Used by permis sion of Regnery Gateway, Inc. The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver, edited by George M. Curtis and James J. Thompson, Jr., 1987, used by permission of the publisher: Liberty Fund, Inc., 7440 North Shadeland, Indianapolis, IN 46250. Quotations from personal letters, speeches, college termpapers, and other material included in the Richard M. Weaver Papers at the Heard Library at Vanderbilt University and the Henry Regnery Papers at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, California, and quotations of unpublished material collected in a dissertation on Richard M. Weaver by Thomas Goodnight, were used by permission of Polly Weaver Beaton. This page intentionally left blank To Elizabeth and Susan Dufiy, and Sasha, Evan, and Andrew Jacobi This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface xi List of Abbreviations xi xix 1. Introduction 1 2. Cultural Theory, Part 1 19 3. Cultural Theory, Part 2 41 4. Literary Theory 67 5. Rhetorical and Composition Theory 93 6. Science, Metaphysics, and Sectional Culture 125 7. The Rhetoric of Social Science: Brute Facts and Created Realities 143 8. General Semantics and Spacious Rhetoric 159 9. Rhetorical Genres 175 10. Conclusion 197 Works Cited 205 Index 213
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