Title: Barbarians in the saddle
First published: 1997
Description: Barbarians in the Saddle is Joseph Scotchie's intellectual biography of Richard M. Weaver. It is an in-depth study of each of Weaver's published works and an examination of the significant influence he had on the formation of conservative America.

Ideas Have Consequences and Visions of Order examine the problem of life in "megalopolis" where the best of everything is promised to the restless masses by their leaders and a cradle-to-grave social security state results in dangerous levels of decadence, resentment, and the loss of civility and culture. In The Southern Tradition at Bay and other essays on the American South, Weaver expresses his preference for the nonmaterialistic, virtuous ethos of the Old South. Finally, The Ethics of Rhetoric highlights Weaver's devotion to a discipline increasingly out of favor with academia.

Barbarians in the Saddle will be of significant value to political theorists, philosophers, and students of American civilization.
Subjects: Civilization, Civilization, Modern, Civilization, Western, Conservatism, Criticism, History, Intellectual life, Modern Civilization, Philosophy, Politics and literature, Rhetoric, Western Civilization, United states, intellectual life, Civilization, western, history, Criticism, united states, Civilization, modern, 20th century, Southern states, civilization, POLITICAL SCIENCE, General, Political Ideologies, Conservatism & Liberalism
Places: Southern States, United States
People: Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS29.W43 S36 1997