1st Edition
Irving Babbitt, Literature and the Democratic Culture
Edited By Milton Hindus
Copyright 1994
135 Pages
by
Routledge
135 Pages
by
Routledge
135 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is a sustained inquiry into the thought of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism. Milton Hindus considers the subjects that most interested Babbitt: ethics, literature, education, and social and political conservatism in the United States. In their most general sense, his concerns were man and his nature as... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Achievement of Irving Babbitt 3. Babbitt’s Masters of Modern French Criticism 4. Babbitt’s Version of the Buddha’s The Dhammapada 5. Rousseau and Romanticism 6. The Future of Democracy in the United States 7. Literature and the Democratic Culture 8. Autobiographies of Van Buren, Reagan, and Bush 9. Malthus, Mendel, and the American Dream
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