STEPS TOWARD RESTORATION
The Consequences of Richard Weaver's Ideas
Edited by Ted J. Smith III

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An appreciation of the modern philosopher and University of Chicago English professor, Richard M. Weaver, and an analysis of the continuing relevance of his best known work, Ideas Have Consequences. This 50th Anniversary essay collection is edited by Weaver's authorized biographer and includes entries by various colleagues, friends, and academics who were influenced by Weaver's monumental cultural critique.

Or Related Interest: Visions of Order by Richard M. Weaver

What They're Saying...

"Steps Toward Restoration is the finest work of Weaver scholarship to date."
— Modern Age

"This collection of fine essays demonstrates that the message of Richard Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences is even more urgent now than when it first appeared. Taken together, the essays explicate Weaver's penetrating analyses, subject them to searching criticism, and contribute significantly to a counter-attack against the moral degeneracy and sinister politics of our deranged but salvageable age."
— Eugene D. Genovese, author, The Southern Front

"A century after Tocqueville, Richard Weaver scanned the American intellectual landscape with the eyes of an outsider. Weaver's penetrating insights, those of a Southerner steeped in the classics, remain as challenging and startling today as when Ideas Have Consequences was first published. These fine essays on the man and his work will help to perpetuate his legacy."'
— Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

"A marvelous introduction to the life and work of one of the seminal thinkers of modern conservatism. As our contemporary political life shows the disastrous consequences of moral and intellectual relativism, it is more important than ever to learn from Richard Weaver's eloquent writing on behalf of universal truth."
— Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., President, The Heritage Foundation

Chapters Include:

• How Ideas Have Consequences Came to be Written
• Richard Weaver: Friend and Colleague
• Ideas Have Consequences Fifty Years Later
• Ideas Have Consequences and the Crisis of Modernity
• The Influence of Ideas Have Consequences on the Conservative Intellectual Movement in America
• Ideas Have Consequences as a Masterwork of Rhetoric
• Consequences in the Provinces
• Ideas Have Consequences: Now More than Ever
• The Legacy of Richard Weaver

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