Irving Babbitt [SEP] educated at
Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1921.
The position of "Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature" was endowed by Harvard University in 1960. The National Humanities Institute runs an "Irving Babbitt Project".
New Humanism.
It was in the early 1890s that he first allied himself with Paul Elmer More in developing the core doctrines that were to constitute what he called the "New Humanism". In 1895 he gave a lecture "What is Humanism?", which announced his attack on Rousseau. At the
of Irving Babbitt" (1931)
- Leander, Folke. "Humanism and Naturalism: A Comparative Study of Ernest Seillière, Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More" (1937)
- Manchester, F. and O. Shepard, eds. "Irving Babbitt" (1941)
- Nevin, Thomas R. "Irving Babbitt: An Intellectual Study" (1984)
- Ryn, Claes G. "Will, Imagination and Reason: Babbitt, Croce and the Problem of Reality)" (1986; 1997)
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