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In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and offers a realistic remedy. He asserts that the world is intelligible, and that man is free. The catastrophes of our age are the product not of necessity but of unintelligent choice. A cure, he submits, is possible. It lies in the right use of man's reason, in the renewed acceptance of an absolute reality, and in the recognition that ideas--like actions--have consequences.

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An historical, social and moral examination of the modern world facing disorder and disintegration - our cultural decline a fact demonstrated by excesses of sentimentality, of brutality; in the obsession for matters scientific; in obliteration of class distinctions; in the cult of soft living; in the abhorrence of discipline, and so on. Remedial measures involve the restoration of piety and justice, of language as a means of communication, of the retention of private property, independence...A thoughtful, disturbed, and disturbing analysis, which cannot be taken lightly. Not another Hayek- but for a more critical, rather than reactionary, audience. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Richard M. Weaver (1910-63) was an American scholar, revered twentieth-century conservative, and professor of English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including The Ethics of Rhetoric and Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time.

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