Defending Dixie By Bob Cheeks

The learned Professor Eric Voegelin in his essay, "Why Philosophize? To Recapture Reality!", wrote, “One of the typical phenomenon of the twentieth century is the event of spiritually energetic people breaking out of the dominant intellectual group in order to find that reality that has been lost.”

Voegelin’s identification of this group of intellectuals willing to challenge the distortions inherent in modernity explain why the West, in general, and the United States, in particular, has yet to succumb to the continuing philosophical derailment endemic in Western culture. It is good, I think, when we are able to identify one of those who replenish the “reservoirs of reality” because in reading their corpus we are able to acquire the knowledge, both intellectually and spiritually, to strengthen our own resolve. One intellectual whose work is defined by this spiritual breakout is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, Dr. Clyde N. Wilson. His new book, Defending Dixie, is an eclectic collection of essays and book reviews.

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