Romantic Irony (Part 3)
(Pictured: Plotinus.) I am happy to present the third post of Chapter VII of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Irony,” by which the romantics stand aloof from what they consider mere rationalism and philistinism. In...
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Romantic Love (Part 1)
Babbitt shows that the romantic lover’s “ever-fleeting” object of desire only turns out in the end to be the lover himself in disguise.
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter IV (Part 9)
(Pictured: Faust.) I am happy to present the ninth 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 the...
Rousseau and Romanticism, Chapter I (Part 4)
I am happy to present the fourth post of Chapter I of Irving Babbitt’s great work Rousseau and Romanticism (first published in 1919), in which the reader is introduced to perhaps the most thoroughgoing...
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