The essential Santayana : selected writings

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The essential Santayana : selected writings

edited by the Santayana Edition ; compiled and with an introduction by Martin A. Coleman

Indiana University Press, c2009

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Chronology: p. xv-xvii

Bibliographical abbreviations: p. xix-xxiii

Includes index

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Description

Although he was born in Spain, George Santayana (1863-1952) became a uniquely American philosopher, critic, poet, and best-selling novelist. Along with his Harvard colleagues William James and Josiah Royce, he is best known as one of the founders of American pragmatism and recognized for his insights into the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and moral philosophy. The Essential Santayana presents a selection of Santayana's most important and influential literary and philosophical work. Martin A. Coleman's critical introduction sets Santayana into the American philosophical tradition and provides context for contemporary readers, many of whom may be approaching Santayana's writings for the first time. This landmark collection reveals the intellectual and literary diversity of one of American philosophy's most lively minds.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Chronology of the Life and Work of George Santayana List of Bibliographical Abbreviations Introduction: The Essential Santayana Part 1. Autobiography A General Confession My Place, Time, and Ancestry Epilogue on My Host, the World Part 2. Skepticism and Ontology Philosophical Heresy Preface [Scepticism and Animal Faith] There Is No First Principle of Criticism Dogma and Doubt Wayward Scepticism Ultimate Scepticism Nothing Given Exists The Discovery of Essence The Watershed of Criticism Knowledge Is Faith Mediated by Symbols Belief in Substance Literary Psychology The Implied Being of Truth Comparison with Other Criticisms of Knowledge Normal Madness Some Meanings of the Word "Is" Preface to Realms of Being Various Approaches to Essence The Being Proper to Essences The Scope of Natural Philosophy Indispensable Properties of Substance Teleology The Psyche There Are No Necessary Truths Facts Arbitrary, Logic Ideal Interplay between Truth and Logic Dramatic Truth Moral Truth Love and Hatred of Truth Denials of Truth Part 3. Rational Life in Art, Religion, and Spirituality The Elements and Function of Poetry Introduction The Birth of Reason How Religion May Be an Embodiment of Reason Justification of Art The Criterion of Taste Art and Happiness Ultimate Religion The Nature of Spirit Liberation Union Part 4. Ethics and Politics Prerational Morality Rational Ethics Post-rational Morality Hypostatic Ethics Public Opinion Government of the People Who Are "The People"? The United States as Leader Conclusion [Dominations and Powers] Part 5. Literature, Culture, and Criticism Sonnet III To W. P. Prologue [The Last Puritan] Epilogue [The Last Puritan] The Poetry of Barbarism Emerson The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy English Liberty in America The Genteel Tradition at Bay The Ethics of Nietzsche William James Josiah Royce Dewey's Naturalistic Metaphysics Index

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  • NCID
    BB05458991
  • ISBN
    • 9780253353481
  • LCCN
    2009284792
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Bloomington, Ind.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xlviii, 647 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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