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Aug 23, 2024 · Irving Babbitt, in his Democracy and Leadership (1924), contrasts with Burke’s “moral imagination” the “idyllic imagination” of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (whom Burke had called “the insane Socrates of the National Assembly”).
Aug 15, 2024 · Prof. Irving Babbitt raised a storm in literary criticism. He was for maintaining a critical standard, as against the school of J. L. Spingarn, later in the New School of Social Research New...
3 days ago · His book Democracy and Leadership (1924) is regarded as a classic text of political conservatism. Babbitt is regarded as a major influence over American cultural and political conservatism. Early career. Babbitt was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of Augusta (Darling) and Edwin Dwight Babbitt.
Aug 27, 2024 · Education, Essays. As Irving Babbitt writes in Literature and the American College, “The spread of this scientific positivism, with its assimilation of man to nature, has had especially striking results in education.
Aug 22, 2024 · But these words of that good westerner, Irving Babbitt, from "Democracy and Leadership," haunt my understanding of westering: "We in this country…have received a peculiar psychic twist from the fact that we have had endless elbowroom.
Aug 24, 2024 · For example, Hindus recounts how Irving Babbitt (1865–1933), the American critic and teacher, speculated about ‘democratic culture’, emphasizing the position and importance of the individual versus, e.g., society. Improving social conditions and ‘democracy’ should thus start from the individual, Babbitt argued.
Aug 15, 2024 · But the remedies proposed in a reactionary book like Democracy and Leadership are totally inadequate for our social complexity, while Babbitt's lack of sympathy for our common life plays...
