Irving Babbitt in Our Time

abstract According to Babbitt Action Française aesthetic American artist Austin Warren Babbitt's ideas Benedetto Croce Buddha Buddhism Burke believed Burke's century character Charles Maurras Christianity civilization Claes G classical College conception conscience conservatism conservative Croce culture Democracy and Leadership discipline doctrine dualism Edmund Burke element emotional Eric Voegelin essay ethical evil experience expression faith feeling formulated French Harvard higher human nature humanistic humanitarian ideals ideology imagination impulses individual influence inner check intellectual intuition Irving Babbitt Kristol Kuehnelt-Leddihn literary literature man's Maurras Maurrassian means mind modern moral nature More's Neoconservatives norms Novak Paul Elmer personality Peter Viereck political practical principles problem rational reality religion religious rience romantic Rousseau and Romanticism Russell Kirk says scholar sense sensibility sentimental social society spiritual T. S. Eliot teacher teaching theory thinker thought tion tradition transcendent truth universal values virtue vision wisdom words writes