name: Irving Babbitt
birth_date: 1865-08-02 00:00:00
death_date: 1933-07-15 00:00:00
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about: New humanism movement of American scholar Irving Babbitt sought to revive interest in classical virtues in literary criticism. Irving Babbitt, a noted academic, in his role from 1910 founded a known, significant influence on discussion and conservative thought in the period. He in the cultural tradition of Matthew Arnold consistently opposed romanticism, as the writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau represented. Politically, he without serious distortion followed Aristotle and Edmund Burke. He advocated and offered an ecumenical defense of religion. He implied a broad knowledge of various moral and religious traditions. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_B... New humanism movement of American scholar Irving Babbitt sought to revive interest in classical virtues in literary criticism. Irving Babbitt, a noted academic, in his role from 1910 founded a known, significant influence on discussion and conservative thought in the period. He in the cultural tradition of Matthew Arnold consistently opposed romanticism, as the writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau represented. Politically, he without serious distortion followed Aristotle and Edmund Burke. He advocated and offered an ecumenical defense of religion. He implied a broad knowledge of various moral and religious traditions. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_B... ...more