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Irving Babbitt (Dayton, 2 agosto 1865 – Cambridge, 15 luglio 1933) è stato un critico letterario, giornalista e docente statunitense, fondatore del movimento filosofico e letterario noto come "Nuovo umanesimo"
Irving Babbitt (August 2, 1865 – July 15, 1933) was an American academic and literary critic, noted for his founding role in a movement that became known as the New Humanism, a significant influence on literary discussion and conservative thought in the period between 1910 and 1930.
Irving Babbitt was an American critic and teacher, leader of the movement in literary criticism known as the “New Humanism,” or Neohumanism. Babbitt was educated at Harvard University and at the Sorbonne in Paris and taught French and comparative literature at Harvard from 1894 until his death.
14 lug 2022 · As the leader of the American humanists, Irving Babbitt (1864-1933) stood solidly and forthrightly in the American conservative tradition of John Adams and Nathaniel Hawthorne and drew upon the greats of world (not merely western) civilization for his arguments: Socrates, Plato, Cicero, Virgil, Confucius, and Horace.
Babbitt, Irving Enciclopedia on line Critico letterario statunitense (Dayton, Ohio, 1865 - Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1933), prof. di letteratura francese alla Harvard Univ. (dal 1912).
8 ott 2014 · Irving Babbitt (1865–1933) is not much remembered today, except perhaps through Sinclair Lewis’s snarky naming of the eponymous villain of the satire of mid-American manners and mores, Babbitt, after the Harvard professor whose anti-Progressive views Lewis denounced in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. In fact,
Abstract. This chapter surveys Irving Babbitt’s writings in defense of the classical and modern humanities. It demonstrates that Babbitt’s critique of the American research university and its philosophical underpinnings provides a more satisfying intellectual foundation for the humanities than do typical contemporary defenses.
