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 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.”
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...
Romantic Irony (Part I)
(Pictured: Ludwig Tieck.) I am happy to present the first post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and philistinism....
Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 4)
“[T]o deal aesthetically with truth is an error of the first magnitude….”
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 I, Section I
Having presented large tracts of Gilbert Murray’s Classical Tradition in Poetry, I believe the time is right to present selections from Irving Babbitt’s acclaimed work, Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which...
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