The Southern Tradition at Bay: Preface and Introduction | Richard M. Weaver

00:00 - Preface
05:33 - Introduction
While Richard M. Weaver is best known for the classic "Ideas Have Consequences", the foundation of his career was this study of his native South. Calling the Southern tradition "the last non-materialist civilization in the Western world," he traced its roots to feudalism, chivalry, religiosity, and aristocratic conventions. The Old South, he concluded, "may indeed be a hall hung with splendid tapestries in which no one would care to live; but from them we can learn something of how to live."
Weaver’s exploration of the ideals and ideas of the Southern tradition as expressed in the military histories, autobiographies, diaries, and novels of the era following the Civil War-especially those written by the men and women on the losing side-is offered to a new generation of readers for whom that tradition has fallen into disrepute and who can scarcely imagine a life rooted in nature, the soil, and a powerful sense of honor.
The Southern Tradition at Bay is, as Jeffrey Hart noted, the work of a man who admired what "is admirable indeed, and that is the foundation of wisdom and indeed sanity."

[@illtakemystand]

Incredible reading of Weaver, an empathetic reading of this classic. I hope you have the time to record the rest of the book because this is a treasure. Thank you for making this.

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Thank you 🙏🏻 pls complete soon

[@thegoldenthread]

@jonathankniffen8304 Chapter One will be published, tonight.

[@HalideHelix]

This was incredibly well written and well read.
Thank you for the post, good sir.

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[@1callicles]

Thank you for posting this. Is this audio version available for the whole book?

[@thegoldenthread]

I'll be generating the rest of the book, gradually.

[@1callicles]

Splendid! I’m not sure how you are generating it, but there is one mistake made in the audio. It comes on the bottom of page 20 of the edition being read (and around the 20:35 mark in video):
Weaver writes: “Out of the natural reverence for intellect and virtue there arises an impulse to segregation, which broadly results in coarser natures, that is, those of duller mental and moral sensibility, being lodged at the bottom and those of more refined at the top.”
In the audio version of the above, “being lodged at the bottom and those of more…” is left out. I thought I’d let you know because without those words the context of what Weaver is expressing is radically changed.
Anyhow, thank you for what you are doing and I look forward to its completion!

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32:48 Literalism

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