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Ideas Have Consequences (Paperback, Enlarged edition)
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Ideas Have Consequences (Paperback, Enlarged edition)
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Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II
optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have
Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an
unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and
debated at the time of its first publication, the book is now seen
as one of the foundational texts of the modern conservative
movement. In its pages, Richard M. Weaver argues that the decline
of Western civilization resulted from the rising acceptance of
relativism over absolute reality. In spite of increased knowledge,
this retreat from the realist intellectual tradition has weakened
the Western capacity to reason, with catastrophic consequences for
social order and individual rights. But Weaver also offers a
realistic remedy. These difficulties are the product not of
necessity but of intelligent choice. And, today, as decades ago,
the remedy lies in the renewed acceptance of absolute reality and
the recognition that ideas-like actions-have consequences. This
expanded edition of the classic work contains a foreword by New
Criterion editor Roger Kimball that offers insight into the rich
intellectual and historical contexts of Weaver and his work and an
afterword by Ted J. Smith III that relates the remarkable story of
the book's writing and publication.
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