IRVING    BABBITT    PROJECT

Among the programs of the National Humanities Institute is an ongoing project focusing on the thought of the late Harvard Professor and social and literary thinker Irving Babbitt. This site, which remains very much under construction, will serve as a repository for works by, about, or influenced by Babbitt, as well as related bibliographical information.

• Irving Babbitt: An Introduction, Claes G. Ryn.
• Babbitt Makes Comeback in Communist China, Brian Mitchell, Investor's Business Daily

Irving Babbitt on:

• Humanism
• Democracy: Imperialism or Standards
• Matthew Arnold

Babbitt Studies:

• 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
  
• The Variety of Historical Minds, Eric Adler
  
• Was Irving Babbitt an Educational Counterrevolutionist?, Eric Adler
  
• Altruism with High Explosives: On William S.Smith's Democracy and Imperialism, Richard Gamble
  
• Professing Literature: The Example of Austin Warren, Aaron Urbanczyk
  

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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• National Humanities Institute