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Richard M. Weaver

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American scholar (1910-1963)

United StatesAcademicsLived 1910 to 1963 · aged 53
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Richard Malcolm Weaver Jr was an American scholar who taught English at the University of Chicago. He is primarily known as an intellectual historian, political philosopher, and a mid-20th century conservative and as an authority on modern rhetoric.

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Richard Malcolm Weaver Jr was an American scholar who taught English at the University of Chicago. He is primarily known as an intellectual historian, political philosopher, and a mid-20th century conservative and as an authority on modern rhetoric. Weaver was briefly a socialist during his youth, a lapsed leftist intellectual, a teacher of composition, a Platonist philosopher, cultural critic, and a theorist of human nature and society.

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United States
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Lived 1910 to 1963 · aged 53
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