Tagged: Kultur

February 6, 2020

Romantic Melancholy (Part 7)

(Pictured: Faust and Mephistopheles.) I am happy to present the seventh, and final, post of Chapter IX of Rousseau and Romanticism, “Romantic Melancholy,” in which Irving Babbitt asks, “does one become happy by being...

Poetry and the Romantic Tradition

November 18, 2018

Romantic Morality: The Real (Part 2)

(Pictured: Bismarck.) I am happy to present the second post of Chapter V, “Romantic Morality: The Real,” in which Babbitt addresses the descent of the romantics from altruistic idealism to egoistic realism, both representing...