New Humanists

Humanism, With or Without God, feat. Eric Adler | Episode LXXIV

Ancient Language Institute Episode 74

For the first time, a collection of Irving Babbitt's and Paul Elmer More's correspondence has been published. Eric Adler, the editor of the collection (titled "Humanistic Letters") joins the show to discuss the collection, New Humanism, and the question that caused more controversy between Babbitt and More than anything else: Do humanists need to believe in God? 


Eric Adler's Humanistic Letters: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780826222909


Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780197680810


Irving Babbitt's Literature and the American College: https://amzn.to/3YIP0Ml


New Humanists episode Can Humanism Replace Christianity? https://newhumanists.buzzsprout.com/1791279/12494774-can-humanism-replace-christianity-episode-xliv


Justin Garrison and Ryan Holston's The Historical Mind: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781438478432


Ryan Holston's Irving Babbitt and Christianity: A Response to T.S. Eliot: https://www.academia.edu/43227260/Irving_Babbitt_and_Christianity_A_Response_to_T_S_Eliot


C.S. Lewis's The Abolition of Man: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780060652944


Norman Foerster's Humanism and America: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.88302/page/n5/mode/2up


Luke Sheahan's The Intellectual Kinship of Irving Babbitt and C.S.Lewis: https://www.pdcnet.org/humanitas/content/humanitas_2016_0029_0001_0005_0042


C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780060652920


Paul Elmer More's The Greek Tradition: https://amzn.to/4dxbXGQ


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