Rousseau and Romanticism (Library of Conservative Thought)
“There are many ways to re-read a classic. One can go to it to participate again in something permanent. One can use it as a measure of one’s own growth or decline. One can mine from it that which is useful for enlightening the present cultural situation. Irving Babbitt’sRousseau and Romanticismrepays re-reading in all of those ways. . . .Rousseau and Romanticismis an enhancement and a subversion of postmodern discourses. Babbitt answers Deleuze’s penchant for intensities with a celebration of amplitude.”—Michael A. Weinstein,Humanitas