The earliest appearance of Mary Flannery O’Connor as the Avenging Hillbilly Thomist seems to have been in 1944. The sweater-clad crusader emerged from her Fortress of Silence while taking Introduction to Modern Philosophy (Philosophy 412) with Professor George Beiswanger. Her instructor was known as Dr. He-B, his wife on the Arts faculty at the GeorgiaContinue reading “(FOC) Aquinas, Gilson, and The Hillbilly Bulldog of Milledgeville”
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