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.

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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. Some of the members renounced the approach.
  • Nyhumanism, kulturrörelse i Tyskland under sent 1700-tal och tidigt 1800-tal, företrädd av bland annat Wilhelm von Humboldt. Den utgick från renässansens humanism och betonade starkt vikten av personlig inlevelse i antikens väsen. I Sverige så var Esaias Tegnér den mest namnkunnige bland nyhumanisterna Nyhumanism är också benämningen på en akademisk rörelse grundad av Irving Babbitt och Paul Elmer More i USA i början av 1900-talet. De kritiserande starkt vad de uppfattade som maktfullkomlighet i sin samtid och pläderade för demokratisk självuppfostran genom moderation.
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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.
  • Nyhumanism, kulturrörelse i Tyskland under sent 1700-tal och tidigt 1800-tal, företrädd av bland annat Wilhelm von Humboldt. Den utgick från renässansens humanism och betonade starkt vikten av personlig inlevelse i antikens väsen. I Sverige så var Esaias Tegnér den mest namnkunnige bland nyhumanisterna Nyhumanism är också benämningen på en akademisk rörelse grundad av Irving Babbitt och Paul Elmer More i USA i början av 1900-talet.
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  • New Humanism
  • Nyhumanism
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