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. He was a cultural critic in the tradition of Matthew Arnold and a consistent opponent of romanticism, as represented by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Politically he can, without serious distortion, be called a follower of Aristotle and Edmund Burke. He was an advocate of classical humanism but also offered an ecumenical defense of religion. His humanism implied a broad knowledge of various moral and religious traditions. His book Democracy and Leadership (1924) is regarded as a classic text of political conservatism. Babbitt is regarded as a major influence over American cultural and political conservatism.[1]
^Robert Muccigrosso, ed., Research Guide to American Historical Biography (1988) 1:80- 85
IrvingBabbitt (August 2, 1865 – July 15, 1933) was an American academic and literary critic, noted for his founding role in a movement that became known...
Democracy and Leadership is a book by IrvingBabbitt, first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1924. A new edition was published by Liberty Fund Inc. in...
On January 6, 2021, Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot during an attack on the United States Capitol. She was part of a crowd of supporters of then U.S. president...
Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent; Hamlet and His Problems IrvingBabbitt: Romantic Melancholy Carl Jung: On the Relation of Analytical Psychology...
Denmark and Friedrich Nietzsche in Germany. In the twentieth century IrvingBabbitt on the right, and Walter Benjamin on the left, might be considered major...
a form of hypocrisy. A closely related categorization developed by IrvingBabbitt distinguishes misanthropes based on whether they allow exceptions in...
Leslie Stephen, Albert Venn Dicey, Robert Nisbet, Paul Elmer More, and IrvingBabbitt. The Conservative Mind hardly mentions economics at all. Kirk grounded...
stories; chosen and edited with an introd., notes, and a vocabulary by IrvingBabbitt (1905)" Zadig, and other tales, 1746-1767. A new translation by Robert...
in 1939 and that same year he married Elena Zarudnaya. He was named IrvingBabbitt Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard in 1960 and retired in...
Politzer, as well as Maurice Blanchot, American philosophers such as IrvingBabbitt, Arthur Lovejoy, Josiah Royce, The New Realists (Ralph B. Perry, E....
from one of Emerson's poems. In this he was probably influenced by IrvingBabbitt.[citation needed] Winters was associated with the New Criticism. Winters...
was known as the New Humanism. Led by Harvard University professor IrvingBabbitt and Princeton University professor Paul Elmer More, the New Humanism...
intellectual base of modern conservatism. Prominent among them were IrvingBabbitt, Russell Kirk, Henry Adams, Richard M. Weaver, Whittaker Chambers, William...
Pali text The Way of Truth, tr S. W. Wijayatilake, Madras, 1934 Tr IrvingBabbitt, Oxford University Press, New York & London, 1936; revision of Max Müller...
literature, the arts, and the American Republic, in the tradition of Kirk, IrvingBabbitt, M. E. Bradford, Edmund Burke, Willa Cather, Christopher Dawson, T....
Elmer More and IrvingBabbitt. Politically, he moved from left-liberalism in the early 1920s and eventually away from More's and Babbitt's Humanism to what...
German principles." Other major critics included Paul Elmer More and IrvingBabbitt, although neither of these was as vitriolic as Sherman. According to...
years in the central tradition of Christendom". More collaborated with IrvingBabbitt from before 1900 in the project later labelled New Humanism. More lived...
Michael R. (1970). Five Counterrevolutionists in Higher Education: IrvingBabbitt, Albert Jay Nock, Abraham Flexner, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Alexander...
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