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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.
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Quando Democracia e liderança foi publicado em 1924, o crítico Herbert Read afirmou, com justiça, que a motivação de Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) era “o restabelecimento de padrões humanistas no lugar das confusões utilitárias humanitárias ou românticas”, então muito em voga.
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19 de ago. de 2020 · Irving Babbitt morreu “dignamente” em Cambridge ― como descreveu Kirk no prefácio de sua mais famosa obra Democracy and Leadership [Democracia e Liderança] ―, no dia 15 de julho de 1933, vítima da dolorosa e autoimune colite.
5 de abr. de 2012 · Irving Babbitt’s genius superimposed upon the “blooming, buzzing and blurring confusion” of cultural controversies in the early twentieth century a tripartite framework of thought that is as illuminating today as it was one hundred years ago.
Literature and the American college; essays in defense of the humanities, by Irving Babbitt
8 de out. de 2014 · Irving Babbitt (1865–1933) was a Harvard professor and a proponent of classical humanism, which he contrasted with scientific and sentimental humanism. He argued that the liberal arts curriculum and the classical tradition were essential for the survival of civilization and democracy.
