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28 apr 2024 · Irving Babbitt (public domain). Babbitt, who taught at Harvard, had written books on higher education and French literature. In Rousseau and Romanticism (1919), he went for unifying root causes in the trends in modern thought that he had identified. In….
9 mag 2024 · The men who influenced him at Harvard were George Santayana, the philosopher and poet, and the critic Irving Babbitt. From Babbitt he derived an anti-Romantic attitude that, amplified by his later reading of British philosophers F.H. Bradley and T.E. Hulme, lasted through his life.
3 mag 2024 · 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.
10 mag 2024 · At first sight, then, the very structure of Kirk’s The Conservative Mind might seem disjointed, if not a bit chaotic. Three figures—Burke and Adams at the beginning and T.S. Eliot at the end—anchor the book. In between, twenty-six persons—from John Randolph of Roanoke to Irving Babbitt—get some kind of treatment.
26 apr 2024 · Originally published in Polish in 2019 by The Lethe Foundation, this book demonstrates the relevance and important of Paul Elmer More (1864–1937) and Irving Babbitt (1865–1933). Their collective legacy is one of responsible and truly thoughtful living. Their treatment of Humanists and their diagnosis of modernity is an important theme in this work, and the indication of the political ...
26 apr 2024 · Originally published in Polish in 2019 by The Lethe Foundation, this book demonstrates the relevance and importance of Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) and Irving Babbitt (1865-1933). Their collective legacy is one of responsible and truly thoughtful living.
26 apr 2024 · And if Eliot and Burke are still remembered, other figures of interest to Kirk, such as Irving Babbitt and the Southern Agrarians, are now little known except to specialists. Kirk and his ghosts are not realities in the America of today; they are merely quaint superstitions, even in conservatives’ eyes.
