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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. The world, he asserts, is intelligible, and man is free. The catstrophes of our own 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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's a mad, mad, world, or at least we know it is today, but
in 1947, when Richard Weaver wrote this book, he knew
the world was already mad and had been since the 14th
century. You will be shocked to learn that the "sickly
metaphysical dream" in which we live was forseen
not just by this homely professor-farmer in 1947, but by
the prophets and "mad men from the deserts" of our rich past. His criticisms of radio, press and motion picture hit like a hammer and shatter what was already shattered. One wonders what this brilliant man would have said about the "information superhighway"!
in 1947, when Richard Weaver wrote this book, he knew
the world was already mad and had been since the 14th
century. You will be shocked to learn that the "sickly
metaphysical dream" in which we live was forseen
not just by this homely professor-farmer in 1947, but by
the prophets and "mad men from the deserts" of our rich past. His criticisms of radio, press and motion picture hit like a hammer and shatter what was already shattered. One wonders what this brilliant man would have said about the "information superhighway"!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
To borrow a phrase from Ernest Becker (Denial of Death): if a few books had the power to shake the world, this one would already have have rocked it to its foundations. Weaver traces our decline to the emergence of nominalism with Duns Scotus, in medieval times. This slim book reads like it was written in fire.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Weaver discards the illusion of our material progress to enlighten us on the decay of our contemporary life and the loss of metaphisical progress
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