A critical introduction to the writings of Irving Babbit, the New Humanist scholar and teacher of T.S. Eliot. "Panichas places Babbit where he belongs: at the core tradition in literary analysis--and does so without resorting to bile, guile, or clever ripostes at the expense of a giant".--Irving Louis Horowitz, author, "Foundations of Political Sociology".
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"Panichas places Babbitt where he belongs: at the core tradition in literary analysis-and does so without resorting to bile, guile, or clever ripostes at the expense of a giant."-Irving Louis Horowitz, author, Foundations of Political Sociology "A penetrating study of the most influential humanist of the twentieth century." -W. Jackson Bate, Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard "Irving Babbitt was a formidable scholar and moralist who stood unflinchingly against the corrosive intellectual tides of his day. In this illuminating volume, Professor George Panichas convincingly establishes why, nearly seven decades after Babbitt's death, he remains a conservative sage, worthy of careful study and respect-the kind of respect and meditation Panichas himself here displays."-George H. Nash, author, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 "This is the most authoritative and comprehensive exposition of Babbitt's thought and character to date. Panichas writes in a style consonant with Babbitt's own: direct, firm, rational, informed by devotion to standards and evaluation." -Stephen L. Tanner, Professor of English, Brigham Young University "Dr. Panichas is a historian of ideas, a cultural critic and a splendid writer. It is time to turn our attention once again to Irving Babbit and Dr. Panichas is an expert guide."-Jeffrey Hart, author, Political Writers of the Eighteenth Century
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George A. Panichas is a moralist critic whose main concerns and many books center on the relations between literature, culture, and society. He is the author of the much applauded critical trilogy-The Reverent Discipline (1974), The Courage of Judgement (1982), and The Critic as Conservator (1992). His publications on Irving Babbitt have appeared regularly during the past twenty years, of which Irving Babbitt: Representative Writings (1981) continues to find new readers. He recently edited In Continuity: The Last Essays of Austin Warren (1996). Since 1984 he has been serving as the editor of Modern Age: A Quarterly Review. John W. Aldridge, the eminent American critic and essayist, writes of Panichas's critical achievement as follows: "Professor Panichas is civilized, fair-minded, compassionate, disciplined, and meticulous in judgment.... He sees his function to be that of a detached and impartial assessor of the moral meanings of literature, and he performs that function with admirable grace."
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