Rousseau and Romanticism
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (855 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1230322396 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 134 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Babbitt answers Deleuze’s penchant for intensities with a celebration of amplitude.” —Michael A. “There are many ways to re-read a classic. One can use it as a measure of one’s own growth or decline. Weinstein, Humanitas. One can mine from it that which is useful for enlightening the present cultural situation. Irving Babbitt’s Rousseau and Romanticism repays re-reading in all of those ways. Rousseau and Romanticism is an enhancement and a subversion of postmodern discourses. One can go to it to participate again in something permanent
Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) was professor of French literature at Harvard University. His numerous books include On Being Creative, The Masters of Modern French Criticism, andLiterature and the American College. . He is a noted literary critic who helped start the New Humanism movement in the early twentieth century
Unclepeacock said Comprehensive Account. A very comprehensive account of the influence of Rousseau on the Romantic Movement. His influence extended in many directions, including literature, philosophy and sociology. (This book is an edited paperback). A Customer said THE FINAL WORD ON ROUSSEAU. THIS IS A CLASSIC AND NO ONE SEES ROUSSEAU MORE CLEARLY THAN IRVING BABBITT.. C. Neal said Meh.. Not Babbitt's greatest work. Well-written, but repetitive and sonorous. Especially for those who've read Democracy and Leadership, which is a far superior book. Babbitt should be read, but not this volume.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. 1919 edition. To illustrate concretely, Milton's plea in his "Areopagitica" for freedom of conscience makes above all for individualism of action. His message is summed up once for all in the exclamation of Faust, "Feeling is all." He urges war on the general sense only because of the restrictions it imposes on the free expansion of his emotions and the enhancing of these emotions by his imagination. Now the warfare that Rousseau and the individualists of feeling have waged on the general. (La foi qui n'agit pas estrce unefoi sincere ?) Pierre Bayle, on the other hand, pleads in his Dictionary and elsewhere for tolerance, not so much because he wishes to act or feel in his own way as because he wishes to think his own thoughts. Even the collectivistic schemes that have been opposed to individualism during this period are themselves, judged by traditional standards, violently individualistic. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV ROMANTIC MORALITY: THE IDEAL The period that began in the late eighteenth century and in the midst of which we are still living has witnessed an almost unparalleled triumph, as I have just said, of the sense of the individual (sens propre) over the general sense of