Babbitt, I.
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Irving Babbitt
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Irving Babbitt (August 2, 1865-July 15, 1933) was born in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He was an American academic and literary critic, noted for his founding role in a movement that became known as New Humanism. He was also a cultural critic in the tradition of Matthew Arnold and a consistent opponent of romanticism, as represented by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Babbitt's humanis, emphasized the need for self-discipline and control, and suppression of the impulses seeking liberation from all restraints.
He entered Harvard College in 1885, at the age of 20. On graduation in 1889, he took a post teaching Classics at the College of Montana. Later he went to study in France at the École Pratique des Hautes-études linked to the Sorbonne. There he studied Pāli Literature and Buddhism for a year. Then he came back to Harvard to study Sanskrit. |Source