IRVING    BABBITT    PROJECT

Among the programs of the National Humanities Institute is a project focusing on the thought of the late Harvard Professor and social and literary thinker Irving Babbitt. This site serves as a repository for works by, about, or influenced by Babbitt, as well as related bibliographical information.

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• Irving Babbitt: An Introduction, Claes G. Ryn.


• Babbitt Makes Comeback in Communist China, Brian Mitchell, Investor's Business Daily

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Irving Babbitt on:

• Humanism


• Democracy: Imperialism or Standards


• Matthew Arnold

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Babbitt Studies:

• How Conservatives Failed “The Culture,” Claes G. Ryn.


• Irving Babbitt and Postmodernity, Michael A. Weinstein.


• A Dialogue on Reason and Imagination, Claes G. Ryn and Michael A. Weinstein.


• Babbitt on Education, Joseph Baldacchino.


• Babbitt and the Christians, Claes G. Ryn.


• A Thinker Behind and Ahead of His Time, David Hill Radcliffe


• The 'Fatal Flaw' of Internationalism: Babbitt on Humanitarianism, Richard M. Gamble


• On the Future of the Humanistic Tradition in Literary Criticism, James Seaton


• Two Kinds of Criticism: Reflective Self-Scrutiny vs. Impulsive Self-Validation, Joseph Baldacchino


• On Wu Mi's Conservatism, Ong Chang Woei


• How We Know What We Know: Babbitt, Positivism and Beyond, Claes G. Ryn


• Dialogue on Babbitt and Lincoln
  
  
  Irving Babbitt on Lincoln and Unionism, James Seaton 
  
  The Problem of Lincoln in Babbitt's Thought, Richard M. Gamble 
  
  The Heritage of Lincoln, James Seaton 


• Ethics and the Common Good: Abstract vs. Experiential, Joseph Baldacchino
  


• Irving Babbitt and Cultural Renewal, James Seaton


• Babbitt's Influence in China: Four Perspectives
  
  
  The Birth of a Chinese Cultural Movement: Letters Between Babbitt and Wu Mi, Wu Xuezhao
  
  Chinese Reactions to Babbitt: Admiration, Encumbrance, Vilification, Zhu Shoutong
  
  Babbitt's Impact in China: The Case of Liang Shiqiu, Bai Liping
  
  'Which West Are You Talking About?' Critical Review: A Unique Model of Conservatism in Modern China, Ong Chang Woei 


• Irving Babbitt, the Moral Imagination, and Progressive Education, Glenn A. Davis
  


• The Intellectual Kinship of Irving Babbitt and C. S. Lewis: Will and Imagination in That Hideous Strength, Luke Sheahan
  


• The Coleridge Circle: Virtue Ethics, Sympathy, and Outrage, Laurence S. Lockridge
  


• Dark Satanic Mills of Mis-Education: Proposals for Reform, Robert C. Koons


• The Common Core Standards: A Utilitarian Straitjacket for Education in America?, Peter Copan

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Books by Irving Babbitt (partial list):

• Literature and the American College (1908)


• The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts (1910) 


• The Masters of Modern French Criticism (1912) 


• The Dhammapada, translated from the Pali with an Essay on Buddha and the Occident (1936) 

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