Richard M. Weaver, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Richard M. Weaver

American scholar

Date of Birth: 03-Mar-1910

Date of Death: 01-Apr-1963

Profession: historian, journalist, literary critic, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Richard Malcolm Weaver, Jr (March 3, 1910 – April 1, 1963) 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 (conservative by the time he was in graduate school), a teacher of composition, a Platonist philosopher, cultural critic, and a theorist of human nature and society.
Described by biographer Fred Young as a "radical and original thinker," Weaver's books Ideas Have Consequences and The Ethics of Rhetoric remain influential among conservative theorists and scholars of the American South.
Weaver was also associated with a group of scholars who in the 1940s and 1950s promoted traditionalist conservatism.