Sublime

Weaver was “a

On Symbols and Society, an anthology of his selected work from the 1930s through 1960s. Here, Burke speaks of the interrelations between poetry, style, and disability with the “unreality of the world in which we live.”

There is no rational philosophy of human rights generally disseminated among the populace, to which we can appeal in defence even of the most intimate or individual things that anybody can imagine.

The man who really cannot see that he is contradicting himself has a great advantage in controversy;

That was Walter Lippmann’s point of view, for example, to mention probably the dean of American journalists—he referred to the population as a “bewildered herd”: we have to protect ourselves from “the rage and trampling of the bewildered herd.” And the way you do it, Lippmann said, is by what he called the “manufacture of consent”—if you don’t do i

rhetor doing the work of a philosopher.” It might be more accurate to say that he was a critic doing the work of a prophet.

In his important study, The Heresy of Democracy (1955), Lord Percy of Newcastle declared of democracy that it is a “philosophy which is nothing less than a new religion” (p. 16). The justification for all things is not to be found in the triune God but in the people. Virtue means meeting people’s needs, and the democratic state, church, and God hav

the accusation (or the compliment) of transcendentalism.