You are invited to join us Thursday, April 14th at 10:00 AM, as we welcome David Brannon '22 to present his senior thesis: George Fitzhugh and the End of Southern Order. 

George Fitzhugh was the pure expression of the Old South’s ideals, and these ideals continue to haunt Southerners. He is the first and the last proslavery thinker to articulate a coherent and logical paradigm for the South. Thus, he is the ‘end’ of the South both as intellectual culmination and as existential conclusion.

Examining Fitzhugh’s writings, this lecture will argue that the Virginian advanced a sociology based on slavery principles, advocated an ethical theory inherited from Aristotle, challenged modernity with a peculiar conservatism, and urged political Caesarism for a return to monarchy.