The New Laokoon (Part 13)
I am happy to present the thirteenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”
I am happy to present the thirteenth post of Irving Babbitt’s book “The New Laokoon, an Essay on the Confusion of the Arts.”
A man becomes un-Platonic and pseudo-mystical in direct ratio to his contempt for rationality as compared with the unconscious, the spontaneous, the instinctive.
I am happy to present the fourth post of the final chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, “The Present Outlook,” in which Irving Babbitt concludes that, “[m]an realizes [the] immensity of his being . . . only in so far as he ceases to be the thrall of his own ego. This human breadth he achieves not by throwing off but by taking on limitations, and what he limits is above all his imagination. ”
(Pictured: Hector Berlioz.) I am happy to present the eighth post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps...
(Pictured: Victor Hugo.) I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter IV of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps...
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