{"product_id":"rousseau-romanticism-by-irving-babbitt","title":"'Rousseau \u0026 Romanticism' by Irving Babbitt","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"177\" data-end=\"378\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWhether you agree or not (most people won’t, fully), this book matters because it captures a now-unfashionable but structurally important counter-tradition: anti-Romantic liberal humanism; suspicious of feeling as virtue and freedom without limits.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"177\" data-end=\"378\"\u003eThis is early 20th-century humanist criticism aimed squarely at Romanticism as a moral and political problem. Irving Babbitt is not doing appreciation or literary history — he’s prosecuting a case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"380\" data-end=\"621\"\u003eHis argument, bluntly: Rousseau’s elevation of instinct, authenticity, and emotional sincerity corrodes restraint, responsibility, and ethical form, and that this legacy runs straight through Romantic literature into modern political excess.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"380\" data-end=\"621\"\u003eOne for the spite shelf, or not. Read and see.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43971564011603,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/f4e2dbf2-3996-4044-b875-193f349c3210.jpg?v=1769563935","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/rousseau-romanticism-by-irving-babbitt","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}