Moral and Cultural Sources of Politics: Babbitt's Rousseau & Romanticism at 100

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Irving Babbitt's Rousseau and Romanticism (1919) is arguably the most penetrating critique of Romantic morality, thought, and sentiment ever written. Romanticism in its diverse forms has profoundly affected Western life--its politics, its views of constitutionalism, the conduct of foreign policy, and its education--and is continuing to do so. Babbitt's work offers an incisive analysis of large, persistent societal currents and has deep and direct relevance for addressing major problems today.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Center for the Study of Statesmanship (formerly the National Humanities Institute)

Individual Presentations

• Irving Babbitt, Imagination, and Political Science Methodology - Joshua J Bowman, Heidelberg University

• Babbitt, Romanticism, and the Twilight of the Humanities - Eric Adler, University of Maryland

• The Self in History: Henry Adams Alongside Irving Babbitt - Matthew T. Cantirino, The Catholic University of America

• Rousseau & Romanticism at 100: Relevant Themes for Contemporary Culture - William Smith, The Catholic University of America

Chair

• Claes G. Ryn

Discussants

• Justin David Garrison Roanoke College

• Justin B. Litke Catholic University of America