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''New Humanism'' or ''neohumanism'' were terms applied to a theory of literary criticism, together with its consequences for culture and political thought, developed around 1900 by the American scholar Irving Babbitt, and the scholar and journalist Paul Elmer More. Babbitt's book ''Literature and the American College'' (1908) first gave it a definite form; it was aimed at a perceived gap between the ideals of liberal arts colleges, and university education as it actually existed. Babbitt himself did not accept the qualification ''new'' as applied to his humanism, which became influential as a strand of conservative thought in the following years, up to the 1930s. Other authors associated with the New Humanist group included George Roy Elliott (1883-1963), Norman Foerster (1887-1972) and Stuart Pratt Sherman (1881-1926). Numerous attacks came from outside, especially during the 1920s. This group was also at times known as ''The Nation'' criticism, from More's time editing ''The Nation'' from 1909. The adoption by Seward Collins of its philosophy, or some trappings, in his publication ''The Bookman'' did something to tarnish it, in a way that external critics had up till then failed to do. Some of the members renounced the approach. == References == *''Humanism and America:essays on the outlook of modern civilisation'' (1930) edited by Norman Foerster *''The New Humanism: A Critique of Modern America, 1900-1940'' (1977) J. David Hoeveler, Jr. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Humanism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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