The New Laokoon (Part 12)
A man becomes un-Platonic and pseudo-mystical in direct ratio to his contempt for rationality as compared with the unconscious, the spontaneous, the instinctive.
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The New Laokoon (Part 9)
I am happy to present the ninth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”
The Present Outlook (Part 6)
(Pictured: Irving Babbitt.) I am happy to present the sixth and final post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity...
The Present Outlook (Part 4)
I am happy to present the fourth post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity of his being . . . only in so far as he ceases to be the thrall of his own ego. This human breadth he achieves not by throwing off but by taking on limitations, and what he limits is above all his imagination. ”
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 10)
(Pictured: Antigone.) I am happy to present the tenth (and penultimate) post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 8)
(Pictured: Hector Berlioz.) I am happy to present the eighth post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 1)
(Pictured: Blaise Pascal.) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter II (Part 3)
I am happy to present the third post of Chapter II of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the most thoroughgoing...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter I (Part 5)
I am happy to present the fifth and final post of Chapter I of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter I (Part 4)
I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter I of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the most thoroughgoing...
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