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Author Murphy, Paul V. (Paul Vincent), 1966-

Title The rebuke of history : the Southern Agrarians and American conservative thought / Paul V. Murphy
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) : illustrations
Contents The radical conservatism of I'll take my stand -- Humanism and southernism : the intellectual origins of Agrarianism -- The failure of a political faith : Agrarianism, 1930-1940 -- Citizens of an Americanized nowhere : Donald Davidson's Southern regionalism -- The South as synecdoche : Agrarianism and the conservative movement -- Agrarian in exile : Richard M. Weaver and the philosophy of order -- The awful responsibility of time : identity, history, and pragmatic Agrarianism -- The survival of the South : the Agrarian tradition, Southern identity, and the modern South
Summary A study of the Agrarian tradition from the 1920s to the present day. Paul Murphy shows how what began as a radical conservative movement eventually became, alternately, a critique of 20th-century American liberalism, a defence of the Western tradition, and a form of Southern traditionalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-337) and index
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Subject Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Agrarians (Group of writers)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Conservatism & Liberalism.
Agrarians (Group of writers)
Conservatism
Intellectual life
Konservativismus
Agrarians Schriftstellergruppe
Maatschappijkritiek.
Traditionalisme.
Conservatisme.
New criticism.
Agrarische maatschappij.
Conservatisme -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle.
Agrarians (groupe littéraire)
SUBJECT Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125653
Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Subject Southern States
United States
USA -- Südstaaten
Etats-Unis (sud) -- Vie intellectuelle.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0807875546
9780807875544