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- Title
Irving Babbitt, 1910. The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. pp. 187–90.
- Abstract
If the philosopher does win a glimpse of something beyond the almost impenetrable veil of illusion, he is liable to take for the truth what is at best only a half-truth, and so grows one-sided and fanatical. The truth will always overflow his categories, yet he needs categories. This is a chief form of that blindness in human nature that the great Greek poets saw so clearly - the desperate tenacity with which men cling to their half-truths and fail to see the approaching shadow of Nemesis.
- Subjects
NEW York (State); HOUGHTON Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co.; HUMAN behavior
- Publication
Man & the Economy, 2022, Vol 9, Issue 2, p135
- ISSN
2196-9639
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1515/me-2023-2002