Rousseau and Romanticism (Library of Conservative Thought) by Irving Babbitt; Introduction-Claes G. Ryn - 1991-01-01

Routledge, 1991 Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor shelf wear. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. Index. lxxxiii, 426 pp..

Paperback / softback. New. This volume is the best-known and most widely discussed work of the influential scholar and critic Irving Babbitt (1865-1933), intellectual leader of the movement known as the New Humanism. It is also the work that best conveys the ethical and aesthetic core of his thought. Broad in scope, it examines a variety of manifestations of romanticism and presents a typology of the imaginative inclinations of that movement Rousseau is analyzed as paradigmatic of the ethical and aesthetic sensibility that is replacing the classical and Christian outlook in the Western world. For Babbitt, works of imagination are integral to human life in general. He explores romanticism with a view to its implications for Western civilization. Babbitt identifies serious ethical, religious, aesthetic, and philosophical problems in the modern world, but he also shows how remedies to those problems must incorporate the best insights of modernity. First published in 1919, the book is strikingly… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Transaction Pub, 1991. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 511 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches.

Routledge, 1991-01-30. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!