The New Laokoon (Part 11)
I am happy to present the eleventh post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts,” published in 1910. This eleventh post inaugurates Chapter V: “Platonists and Pseudo-Platonists.”
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The New Laokoon (Part 10)
I am happy to present the tenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.” This is the final installment of Chapter IV, The Theory of Spontaneity.
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 New Laokoon (Part 8)
Our previous post concluded Babbitt’s treatment of the neo-classical confusion of the arts; with this post we begin his treatment of the romantic confusion of the arts.
The New Laokoon (Part 2)
(Pictured: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.) I am happy to present the second post of Irving Babbitt’s book The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts, published in 1910, in which Babbitt followed...
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 5)
(Pictured: Confucius.) I am happy to present the fifth 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...
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. ”
The Present Outlook (Part 2)
(Pictured: Goethe.) I am happy to present the second 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...
The Present Outlook (Part 1)
(Pictured: Dante.) I am happy to present the first 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...
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