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Name: Irving Babbitt
Birth Date: August 2, 1865
Death Date: July 15, 1933
Place of Birth: Dayton, Ohio, United States
Place of Death: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: philosopher, critic, educator

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Biography of Irving Babbitt
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Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) and Paul Elmer More were the two chief proponents of the New Humanist movement in the first half of the twentieth century. Babbitt and the New Humanists perceived that Western culture had been negatively impacted by the...
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Although he followed upon other critics who had pursued their work with an eye to its professional academic context, Irving Babbitt was the first American critic to turn the academy itself into a polemical arena. If Babbitt viewed his work as a battle...


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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...


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Humanitas
Irving Babbitt and cultural renewal.
03/22/2003: 4,109 words, approx. 14 pages
It is tempting to think of Irving Babbitt as a voice crying in the wilderness, a lonely prophet attempting the impossible task of reversing the course of history. Such a view of Babbitt has the bonus of imputing a special virtue to those...
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Humanitas
Irving Babbitt on Lincoln and unionism.
03/22/2002: 4,057 words, approx. 14 pages
Surveying American politics, culture and society in Democracy and Leadership, Irving Babbitt found little to admire and much to criticize. (1) Against the notion that "the people" could be trusted to choose worthy leaders, he reminded his readers that "Millions of Americans were...
 


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