Weaver Richard M
Richard Malcolm Weaver, Jr. was an American scholar, intellectual historian, and political philosopher who taught English at the University of Chicago.
Known for his conservative views and influence on mid-20th century conservative thought, Weaver's most famous works include "Ideas Have Consequences" and "The Ethics of Rhetoric." Initially a socialist in his youth, he later became a traditionalist conservative and was associated with a group of scholars promoting this ideology in the 1940s and 1950s.
Weaver's writings on rhetoric, human nature, and society continue to be influential among conservative theorists and scholars of the American South.
