Rousseau and Romanticism by Irving Babbitt (English) Paperback Book

Description: Rousseau and Romanticism by Irving Babbitt, Otto Scott This volume is the best-known and most widely discussed work of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This volume is the best-known and most widely discussed work of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism. It is also the work that best conveys the ethical and aesthetic core of his thought. Broad in scope, it examines a variety of manifestations of romanticism and presents a typology of the imaginative inclinations of that movement Rousseau is analyzed as paradigmatic of the ethical and aesthetic sensibility that is replacing the classical and Christian outlook in the Western world. For Babbitt, works of imagination are integral to human life in general. He explores romanticism with a view to its implications for Western civilization.Babbitt identifies serious ethical, religious, aesthetic, and philosophical problems in the modern world, but he also shows how remedies to those problems must incorporate the best insights of modernity. First published in 1919, the book is strikingly relevant to todays discussion of the crisis of American and Western culture and education. Babbitt anticipated and analyzed dangerous cultural trends whose consequences are now widely bemoaned. He applies to these phenomena an intellectual breadth and depth rare today. At the end of the twentieth century his prescriptions for dealing with the central problems of Western civilization have acquired an acute urgency. At a time of much renewed interest in Rousseau, Babbitts book offers a penetrating commentary that challenges widely held beliefs and interpretations.Graced with a lengthy and wide-ranging new introduction by Claes G. Ryn, Rousseau and Romanticism is simultaneously a work of literary history, criticism, and a theory of civilization. In addressing its special subject, this classic study reflects the main themes of Babbitts thought, making it representative of his work as a whole. Ryn explicates and critically assesses Babbitts central ideas, refutes widely circulating misinterpretations, and demonstrates the relevance of his writing in the intellectual and cultural circumstances of today. Author Biography Otto Scott Table of Contents I: The Terms Classic and Romantic; II: Romantic Genius; III: Romantic Imagination; IV: Romantic Morality: The Ideal; V: Romantic Morality: The Real; VI: Romantic Love; VII: Romantic Irony; VIII: Romanticism and Nature; IX: Romantic Melancholy; X: The Present Outlook Review -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 ones own growth or decline. One can mine from it that which is useful for enlightening the present cultural situation. Irving Babbitts Rousseau and Romanticism repays re-reading in all of those ways. . . . Rousseau and Romanticism is an enhancement and a subversion of postmodern discourses. Babbitt answers Deleuzes penchant for intensities with a celebration of amplitude.- --Michael A. Weinstein, Humanitas "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 ones own growth or decline. One can mine from it that which is useful for enlightening the present cultural situation. Irving Babbitts Rousseau and Romanticism repays re-reading in all of those ways. . . . Rousseau and Romanticism is an enhancement and a subversion of postmodern discourses. Babbitt answers Deleuzes penchant for intensities with a celebration of amplitude." --Michael A. Weinstein, Humanitas "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 ones own growth or decline. One can mine from it that which is useful for enlightening the present cultural situation. Irving Babbitts Rousseau and Romanticism repays re-reading in all of those ways. . . . Rousseau and Romanticism is an enhancement and a subversion of postmodern discourses. Babbitt answers Deleuzes penchant for intensities with a celebration of amplitude." --Michael A. Weinstein, Humanitas Review Text "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 ones own growth or decline. One can mine from it that which is useful for enlightening the present cultural situation. Irving Babbitts Rousseau and Romanticism repays re-reading in all of those ways. . . . Rousseau and Romanticism is an enhancement and a subversion of postmodern discourses. Babbitt answers Deleuzes penchant for intensities with a celebration of amplitude." --Michael A. Weinstein, Humanitas Details ISBN0887388884 Language English ISBN-10 0887388884 ISBN-13 9780887388880 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1991 Imprint Transaction Publishers Illustrations black & white illustrations Birth 1865 Death 1933 Short Title ROUSSEAU & ROMANTICISM (PPR) R Edition Description Revised Place of Publication Somerset Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st DOI 10.1604/9780887388880 UK Release Date 1991-01-30 AU Release Date 1991-01-30 NZ Release Date 1991-01-30 Pages 510 Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc Publication Date 1991-01-30 Alternative 9781138532120 DEWEY 809.9145 Audience Undergraduate Author Otto Scott Series The Library of Conservative Thought We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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