Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt-Paul Elmer More Correspondence - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0826222900 ISBN 13 : 9780826222909

Editeur : University of Missouri Press, 2023

Synopsis

Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) and Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) were the leading lights of the New Humanism, a consequential movement of literary and social criticism in America. Through their writings on literary, educational, cultural, religious, and political topics, they influenced countless important thinkers, such as T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, Russell Kirk, Benedetto Croce, Werner Jaeger, and George Will. Their work became the source of heated public debates in the 1920s and early 1930s. The belligerent criticisms of Babbitt and More--composed by such famous intellectuals as Ernest Hemmingway and H.L. Mencken--have ensured that the New Humanism has seldom been properly appreciated. Humanistic Letters helps remedy this problem, by providing for the first time the extant correspondence of Babbitt and More, which gets to the heart of their intellectual project.

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À propos de l'auteur

Eric Adler is Chair and Professor of Classics at the University of Maryland. He is the author of three books, including The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today and Classics, the Culture Wars, and Beyond.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Missouri Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826222900
• ISBN 13: 9780826222909
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 488
• Éditeur: Adler Eric
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