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'''''Visions of Order''''' (1964) is a posthumously-published work by [[conservatism|conservative]] scholar [[Richard M. Weaver]] which argues that Western culture is in decline because many of its intellectuals refuse to believe in an underlying order of things—in the way things are, irrespective of beliefs about them. | '''''Visions of Order''''' (1964) is a posthumously-published work by [[conservatism|conservative]] scholar [[Richard M. Weaver]] which argues that Western culture is in decline because many of its intellectuals refuse to believe in an underlying order of things—in the way things are, irrespective of beliefs about them. | ||
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More specific targets of Weaver's wrath in this book include: the theory of biological evolution, public education, total wars, the immanentizing of social ideals, and an over-emphasis on function over status.