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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1948. First edition. Octavo. Original boards and dust jacket (not price-clipped). One-inch closed tear to foot of front jacket and small sticker stain to head of rear jacket panel, minor edgewear and toning to the dust jacket, else a fine first edition in a very good-plus dust jacket.. Exceptional first edition of Richard Weaver's (1910-1963) seminal work on the decline of the West and the consequences of its movement away from philosophical realism in favor of moral and intellectual relativism. Weaver was an American professor of English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago and a conservative intellectual in the Southern tradition. Weaver earned his degree in English in 1932 from the University of Kentucky and thereafter pursued his master's degree in English at Vanderbilt University, where John Crowe Ransom supervised his thesis, The Revolt Against Humanism-a critique of the humanism of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More. He would later pursue a Ph.D.…
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Ideas Have Consequences
by Weaver, Richard
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Factory Work" in politics (Volume 3, No. 11)
by Weil, Simone [Dwight Macdonald, ed.]
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New York: Politics Publishing Co, 1946. Magazine. Stapled wraps, 8.5 x 11 inches. Lightly worn, staples rusted. Near-fine.. A bright copy of this uncommon publication of Simone Weil's (1909-1943) essay "Factory Work." During the years 1934-1935 ("hard and bitter years of economic crisis" in France), Weil set out to experience and document the "proletarian condition" of France's laborers in the factories of suburban Paris. As a result of her experiences Weil concluded that "our factories have become festering grounds of evil, and the evils of the factories must be corrected." Weil's essay records her appeal for the good over the useful, the qualitative over the quantitative, goodness over well-being-in sum, for a fundamental purpose over mere utilitarian function. Dwight Macdonald (1906-1982) published Weil's essay in the December 1946 issue of politics, a magazine he founded in 1944 and which began as a monthly publication until its fourth year, after which it ran as a quarterly. Macdonald launched…
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