The rebuke of history the Southern Agrarians and American conservative thought - Murphy, Paul V. 1957- (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-337) and index
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
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