    The Rebuke of H I S T O R Y TheSouthern Agrariansand American Conservative Thought 2  .        ChapelHillandLondon ©TheUniversity ofNorthCarolinaPress Allrightsreserved SetinJansonTypeby TsengInformationSystems,Inc. ManufacturedintheUnited StatesofAmerica Thepaperinthisbookmeets theguidelinesforpermanence anddurabilityoftheCommittee onProductionGuidelines forBookLongevityofthe CouncilonLibraryResources. LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-PublicationData Murphy,PaulV. Therebukeofhistory:the SouthernAgrariansand Americanconservative thought/PaulV.Murphy. p.cm. Includesbibliographical referencesandindex. --- (cloth:alk.paper)— --- (pbk.:alk.paper) .Conservatism—UnitedStates— History—thcentury. .Agrarians(Groupofwriters) .SouthernStates—Intellectual life—thcentury. I.Title. ..  .''—dc                      Acknowledgments xi Introduction TheRebukeofHistory  C O TheRadicalConservatismofI’llTakeMyStand  C T HumanismandSouthernism: TheIntellectualOriginsofAgrarianism  C T TheFailureofaPoliticalFaith:Agrarianism, –  C F CitizensofanAmericanizedNowhere: DonaldDavidson’sSouthernRegionalism  C F TheSouthasSynecdoche:Agrarianismand theConservativeMovement  C S AgrarianinExile:RichardM.Weaver andthePhilosophyofOrder  C S TheAwfulResponsibilityofTime:Identity, History,andPragmaticAgrarianism  C E TheSurvivaloftheSouth:TheAgrarianTradition, SouthernIdentity,andtheModernSouth  Epilogue OfSouthernConservatismandAgrarianism  Notes  Bibliography  Index   AllenTate,  DonaldDavidson,  JohnCroweRansom,  AllenTatewithMalcolmCowley ataConfederatemonument,  LeadingAgrariansattheFugitives’ reunion,Nashville,Tennessee,  RichardM.Weaver  AllenTateandRobertPennWarren,  RobertPennWarren 