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  • Rousseau and Romanticism

    Rousseau's influence on Romanticism is profound, as he championed the idea of the individual and the importance of personal emotion over rationalism. His works emphasized the beauty of nature and the innate goodness of humanity, which resonated deeply with Romantic thinkers. Rousseau's belief in the authenticity of human experience inspired writers and artists to explore themes of passion, freedom ... Read more

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  • Rousseau and Romanticism

    The words classic and romantic, we are often told, cannot be defined at all, and even if they could be defined, some would add, we should not be much profited. But this inability or unwillingness to define may itself turn out to be only one aspect of a movement that from Rousseau to Bergson has sought to discredit the analytical intellect—what Wordsworth calls “the false secondary power by which ... Read more

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  • Rousseau and Romanticism

    In "Rousseau and Romanticism," Irving Babbitt examines the profound influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Romantic movement, dissecting the philosophical underpinnings that shaped modern thought. Babbitt's analysis spans various genres, blending literary criticism with philosophical exploration to highlight the tension between individualism and social responsibility. His prose is both incisive ... Read more

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  • Rousseau and Romanticism

    Enriched edition. Exploring Rousseau's Impact on Romantic Literature

    In "Rousseau and Romanticism," Irving Babbitt delves into the complex interplay between Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophical ideas and the burgeoning Romantic movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. Babbitt employs a critical lens, analyzing Rousseau's notions of individuality, emotion, and nature, proposing that his ideas served both as a catalyst for and a counterpoint to Romanticism's ideals. ... Read more

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  • Character & Culture

    Essays on East and West

    Series series Library of Conservative Thought
    Character and Culture by Irving Babbitt is the latest volume in the Library of Conservative Thought. Babbitt was the leader of the twentieth-century intellectual and cultural movement called American Humanism or the New Humanism. More than half a century after his death his intellectual staying power remains undiminished. The qualities that marked Irving Babbitt as a thinker and cultural critic of ... Read more

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  • Rousseau and Romanticism

    Series series Library of Conservative Thought
    This volume is the best-known and most widely discussed work of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism. It is also the work that best conveys the ethical and aesthetic core of his thought. Broad in scope, it examines a variety of manifestations of romanticism and presents a typology of the imaginative ... Read more

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  • On Literature, Culture, and Religion

    Irving Babbitt

    Irving Babbitt was a giant of American criticism. His writings from the 1890s to the 1930s helped advance American criticism and scholarship to international esteem. More than seventy years after his death his intellectual staying power remains undiminished. On Literature, Culture, and Religion is an ideal introduction to this seminal American thinker.Babbitt's opinions were uncompromising, and ... Read more

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  • The Dhammapada

    Buddhist philosophy

    by G. Buddha ...
    Translated by Irving Babbitt ...
    The 423 verses in the collection known as The Dhammapada (pada: "the way"; dhamma: "the teaching"; hence, "The Path of Truth") are attributed to the Buddha himself and form the essence of the ethics of Buddhist philosophy.There are a number of English translations of The Dhammapada, but this version by Irving Babbitt, for many years professor at Harvard and founder, with Paul Elmer More, of the ... Read more

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  • No Time to Lose

    A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva

    by Pema Chodron ...
    The beloved Buddhist nun and bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart examines Shantideva’s The Way of the Bodhisattva, sharing “her ever-approachable and pithy instructions for daily life” for readers of all backgrounds (Parabola)Over the years, Pema Chödrön's books have offered readers an exciting new way of living: developing fearlessness, generosity, and compassion in all aspects of their ... Read more

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  • Beyond Good and Evil

    Translated by R. J. Hollingdale ...
    'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael TannerBeyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche seeks to demonstrate that the Christian world is steeped in a false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. ... Read more

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  • On the Genealogy of Morals

    The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology.Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of The Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous writings. But in fact the book does much more than that, elucidating and expanding on the cryptic aphorisms of Beyond Good and Evil and ... Read more

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