Irving Babbitt: an intellectual study
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Chapel Hill [u.a.]
Univ. of North Carolina Press
1984
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| Physical Description: | XI, 194 S. |
| ISBN: | 0807815950 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
ix
Chapter
1
An American
Cato
3
Chapter
2
Babbitt at Harvard
11
Chapter
3
The
Lessing
Persuasion: Babbitt as a Literary Critic
33
Chapter
4
Les Epreuves Françaises:
Babbitt s French Masters
53
Chapter
5
The Craving for Immediacy:
The Search for a Humanist Culture
78
Chapter
6
Limiting Democracy: Humanism in a Political Context
100
Chapter
7
Babbitt s Halfway House: The Religion of Humanism
125
Chapter
8
Conclusions
144
Notes
151
Bibliographical Essay
181
Index
191
Few men in America s intellectual his¬
tory have sought as much as Irving
Babbitt to be a crucible for the cultural
values that America, especially in its
progressive epoch, had no inclination
to receive. Fifty years after his death,
Babbitt remains a figure of controversy.
He retains his reputation as a reaction¬
ary defender of genteel morality and
taste, yet, as Thomas
Nevin
reminds us,
he continues to be a scholar of impor¬
tance and an erudite, forceful teacher
who influenced
---
among others
---
T. S.
Eliot, Van
^Ä^yck
Brooks, Walter Lipp-
mann, Austin Warren, and David
Riesman.
rVevin argues that the tradition Bab¬
bitt represented did not so much uphold
class mores as it urged that literature
embody and inculcate discipline. In this
first book-length study of Babbitt s hu¬
manism,
Nevin
examines the controver¬
sial critic s attacks on collegiate educa¬
tional reform, his literary and aesthetic
criticism, his political philosophy of an
aristocratic democracy, and his fusion
of humanism with Buddhism. Included
in each chapter are substantial portions
of Babbitt s unpublished correspondence
with Paul Elmer More, letters that elo-
cjuently reveal points of agreement and
of difference between Babbitt s human¬
ism and the theism that More came to
espouse.
Although this study reflects the vari¬
ety of Babbitt s concerns, it concentrates
on his major ideas: the need to maintain
the dualism that is the legacy of the
Western
philosophical tradition, the im¬
perative that critically sound standards
of judgment be maintained in the indi¬
vidual and in society, and the affirma¬
tion of the human will against the re¬
ductive forces of materialistic ideologies.
Humanism, as Babbitt defines it, op¬
poses the ascendance of utilitarian sci¬
ence because the sciences, however le¬
gitimate in the area of phenomenal
inquiry, as a secular faith supplant the
traditional strength and appeal of cul¬
tural and religious standards. Literature
itself under the influence of naturalism
either reflects a mechanized, demoral¬
ized society or merely escapes aestheti¬
cally from its ugliness.
With the recent reprinting of some of
Babbitťs
writings, scholars may now re¬
assess his thought. Irving Babbitt should
renew interest in a major American
thinker and vindicate many of his argu¬
ments that apply to the problems of our
own day.
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