In the essay below, Tate analyzes the ideas of New Humanists Irving Babbitt, Paul Elmer More, and Norman Foerster, dismissing them as vague, self-contradictory, and lacking in cohesiveness.
If the ...
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In the following essay, Babbitt explicates the major tenets of humanism.
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The art of defining is so indispensable that one needs to define the limits of definition itself. A very eminent humanist,...
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In the following essay, O'Connor summarizes attacks on the New Humanists in the late 1920s and discusses their influence on other critics.
During the postwar years reductive naturalism had m...
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In the essay below, Sutton presents an overview of the main works, figures, and detractors of the New Humanists.
Many intellectuals sensitive to the confusion and disorder of the early twentieth ce...
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In the following excerpt, Duggan explores More's association with the New Humanists, focusing on the attack on his ideas in C. Hartley Grattan's The Critique of Humanism.
The New Human...
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In the essay below, Lora documents Babbitt's and More's contributions to the New Humanism and traces the development and eventual demise of the movement.
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Philosophical Conservatism ...
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In the following essay, Tanner comments on the relationship between Sinclair Lewis and H. L. Mencken on the one hand, and the New Humanists on the other, noting their lack of understanding of one anot...
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In the essay below, Harris evaluates Babbitt's ideas pertaining to higher education.
To repudiate the traditional Christian and classical checks and at the same time fail to work out some ne...
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In the following essay, Hoeveler traces the individual paths that led Paul Elmer More, Irving Babbitt, and other writers to align into the movement known as the New Humanism and comments on the social...
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In the following essay, JanMohamed traces the influence of New Humanist ideas on later evaluations of minority literature, arguing that the New Humanists established rigid cultural standards that stil...
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Hanoi (dpa) - A 22-year-old Vietnamese woman has died of suspected
avian influenza in the first new human bird-flu case in more than a
month, a hospital official said Tuesda...
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Hanoi (dpa) - Vietnam confirmed two new human cases of the H5N1
avian flu virus on Tuesday, raising the total number of bird flu
cases reported in the country to four since ...
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3RD GRAF FROM BOTTOM)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday that the government will
aim to reform within three years th...
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China published new rules governing human organ transplants in its latest effort to clean up a business critics say has little regard for medical ethics.But the regulations were packed with shortco...
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Hanoi (dpa) - Vietnam went on high alert nationwide Wednesday for
new bird flu cases as thousands of poultry were slaughtered in the
Mekong Delta following the first confirm...
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Hanoi (dpa) - A pregnant, 22-year-old Vietnamese woman has died of
suspected avian influenza in the first new human case here in more
than a month, health officials said Tue...
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(EDS: ADDING INFO)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday that the government will
set up a new ''human resource bank'' to reform, within three years
from its launch, the ''amakudari'' pract...
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Hanoi (dpa) - A flock of ducks that died last week on a farm
in central Vietnam has tested positive for avian influenza, an
official said Sunday.
Government t...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
HUMAN RIGHTS HOAX (The Wall Street Journal, New York)
The U.N.'s new Human Rights Council marked its first birthday
Tuesday in Geneva by ...
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Critical Essay by Allen Tate
Vietnam reports new human bird-flu death
