Zadig, and other stories, Babbitt, Voltaire Irving

Автор: Lewis, Sinclair
Название: Babbitt
ISBN: 0451530616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451530615
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Автор: Lewis, Sinclair
Название: Babbitt
ISBN: 0099264714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099264712
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Описание: Realising that his life is devoid of meaning, he grows determined to transcend his trivial existence and search for a greater purpose. In the economic boom years of 1920s` America, Babbitt became a symbol of middle-class mediocrity, and his name an enduring part of the American lexicon.

Автор: Nevin Thomas R.
Название: Irving Babbitt: An Intellectual Study
ISBN: 080783629X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807836293
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Описание: Few men in America's intellectual history have sought as much as Irving Babbitt to be a crucible for the cultural values that America, expecially in its ""progressive"" epoch, had no inclination to receive. Over sixty years after his death, Babbitt remains a figure of controversy. He retains his reputation as a reactionary defender of genteel morality and taste, yet, as Thomas Nevin reminds us, he continues to be a scholar of importance and an erudite, forceful teacher who influenced -- among others -- T. S. Eliot, Van Wyck Brooks, Walter Lippmann, Austin Warren, and David Riesman.Nevin argues that the tradition Babbit represented did not so much uphold class mores as it urged that literature embody and inculcate discipline. In this book-length study of Babbitt's humanism, Nevin examines the controversial critic's attacks on collegiate educational reform, his literary and aesthetic criticism, his political philosophy of an ""aristocratic democracy"" and his fusion of humanism with Buddhism. Included in each chapter are substantial portions of Babbitt's unpublished correspondence with Paul Elmer More, letters that eloquently reveal points of agreement and difference between Babbitt's humanism and the theism that More came to espouse.Although this study reflects the variety of Babbitt's concerns, it concentrates on his major ideas: the need to maintain the dualism that is the legacy of the Western philosophical tradition, the imperative that critically sound standards of judgment be maintained in the individual and in society, and the affirmation of the human will against the reductive forces of materialistic ideologies. Humanism, as Babbitt defines it, opposes the ascendance of utilitarian science because the sciences, however legitimate in the area of phenomenal inquiry, as a secular faith supplant the traditional strength and appeal of cultural and religious standards. Literature itself under the influence of naturalism either reflects a mechanized, demoralized society or merely escapes aesthetically from its ugliness.With the reprinting of some of Babbitt's writings, scholars may now reassess his thought. Irving Babbitt should renew interest in a major American thinker and vindicate many of his arguments that apply to the problems of our own day.Originally published in 1984.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Автор: Smith William S.
Название: Democracy and Imperialism: Irving Babbitt and Warlike Democracies
ISBN: 0472131532 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472131532
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Описание: Examines Irving Babbitt`s unique contribution to understanding the quality of foreign policy leadership in a democracy, as he showed that a democratic nation`s foreign policy is a product of the moral and cultural tendencies of the nation`s leaders and that the substitution of expansive, sentimental Romanticism for the religious and ethical traditions of the West would lead to imperialism.

Автор: Babbitt Irving
Название: Rousseau and Romanticism
ISBN: 0341860735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780341860730
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Автор: Babbitt Irving 1865-1933
Название: Literature and the American College
ISBN: 137249474X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781372494741
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Автор: Babbitt Richard R.
Название: Light Infantry Division - How Many Are Needed?
ISBN: 1249371732 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781249371731
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Автор: Susan E. Babbitt
Название: Humanism and Embodiment: From Cause and Effect to Secularism
ISBN: 1472529146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472529145
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Описание: A live issue in anthropology and development studies, humanism is not typically addressed by analytic philosophers. Arguing for humanism as a view about truths, Humanism and Embodiment insists that disembodied reason, not religion, should be the target of secularists promoting freedom of enquiry and human community. Susan Babbitt’s original study presents humanism as a meta-ethical view, paralleling naturalistic realism in recent analytic epistemology and philosophy of science. Considering the nature of knowledge, particularly the radical contingency of knowledge claims upon causal mechanisms, religious thinkers like Thomas Merton and Ivan Illich offer more scientific conceptions of practical deliberation than are offered by some non-religious ethicists. Drawing on philosophical sources such as Marxism, Buddhism and Christianity, this original study considers implications of an embodied conception of reason, revealing philosophical, practical and political implications.

Автор: Lewis Sinclair
Название: Babbitt
ISBN: 9353423260 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353423261
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Автор: Natalie Babbitt; Illustrated by the author
Название: Goody Hall
ISBN: 0312369832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312369835
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An out-of-work actor, Hercules Feltwright, stumbles into a job tutoring Willet Goody, the only child of a widow living in a large, lonely house. Willet quickly involves his tutor in the search to discover the truth about his father. The mystery unfolds with the discovery of hidden treasure, a gypsy seance, and the frightening exploration of the tomb of Midas Goody.