THE CRITICAL LEGACY OF IRVING BABBITT
By George A. Panichas
List Item No. 264
ISBN: 1-882926-22-6 (cloth)
235 pages (includes Index & Chronology)
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The Critical Legacy of Irving Babbitt is an unsurpassed appreciation of a major American critic and diagnostician of the modern social order. Panichas reveals Babbitt's criticism to be uncompromising and controversial, impelled by moral concerns and imperatives—the ultimate problems of life, literature, and thought. This work is also a useful introduction to the writings Babbitt, the New Humanist scholar and teacher of T. S. Eliot.
What They're Saying...
"[A] reverent yet frank portrait of a man whose ideas have left an indelible impact on the history of American thought."
— Ohioana Quarterly
"Panichas rescues Babbitt from his most glib critics and demonstrates once
again the power and range of Babbitt's mind. Babbitt's courage and insight
shine through clearly in these essays."
— The Southern Partisan
"[R]ecommended very highly."
— Touchstone
"A penetrating study of the most influential humanist of the twentieth century."
— W. Jackson Bate, Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard
"Panichas places Babbitt where he belongs: at the core tradition in literary analysis."
— Irving Louis Horowitz, author, Foundations of Political Sociology
"Dr. Panichas is a historian of ideas, a cultural critic, and a splendid writer."
— Jeffrey Hart, author, Political Writers of the Eighteenth Century
"In this illuminating volume, Professor Panichas convincingly establishes why, nearly seven decades after Babbitt's death, he remains a conservative sage, worthy of careful study and respect."
— George H. Nash, author, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945
Chapters Include:
- Teacher and Critic
- The Critical Mission
- Babbitt on Religion
- Irving Babbitt and Simone Weil
- Irving Babbitt and Richard Weaver
- The Widening of the Circle
- An Act of Reparation
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