The essential Santayana : selected writings / edited by The Santayana Edition ; compiled and with an introduction by Martin A. Coleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santayana, George, 1863-1952.

Contributor:

Coleman, Martin A.

Santayana Edition.

Standardized Title:

Selections. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy, American--20th century.

Philosophy, American.

Santayana, George, 1863-1952.

Santayana, George.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (698 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

COVER

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chronology of the Life and Work of George Santayana

Bibliographical Abbreviations

About This Book

Introduction: The Essential Santayana

I. Autobiography

A General Confession (1940)

My Place, Time, and Ancestry (1944)

Epilogue on My Host, The World (1949)

II. Skepticism and Ontology

Philosophical Heresy (1915)

Preface [Scepticism and Animal Faith] (1923)

There Is No First Principle of Criticism (1923)

Dogma and Doubt (1923)

Wayward Scepticism (1923)

Ultimate Scepticism (1923)

Nothing Given Exists (1923)

The Discovery of Essence (1923)

The Watershed of Criticism (1923)

Knowledge Is Faith Mediated by Symbols (1923)

Belief in Substance (1923

Literary Psychology (1923)

The Implied Being of Truth (1923)

Comparison with Other Criticisms of Knowledge (1923)

Normal Madness (1925)

Some Meanings of the Word "Is" (1924)

Preface to Realms of Being (1927)

Various Approaches to Essence (1927)

The Being Proper to Essences (1927)

The Scope of Natural Philosophy (1930)

Indispensable Properties of Substance (1930

Teleology (1930)

The Psyche (1930)

There Are No Necessary Truths (1937)

Facts Arbitrary, Logic Ideal (1937)

Interplay between Truth and Logic (1937)

Dramatic Truth (1937)

Moral Truth (1937)

Love and Hatred of Truth (1937)

Denials of Truth (1937)

III. Rational Life in Art, Religion, and Spirituality

The Elements and Function of Poetry (1900)

Introduction [The Life of Reason] (1905)

The Birth of Reason (1905)

How Religion May Be an Embodiment of Reason (1905)

Justification of Art (1905)

The Criterion of Taste (1905)

Art and Happiness (1905)

Ultimate Religion (1933)

The Nature of Spirit (1940)

Liberation (1933)

Union (1933)

IV. Ethics and Politics.

Prerational Morality (1906)

Rational Ethics (1906)

Post-Rational Morality (1906)

Hypostatic Ethics (1913)

Public Opinion (1951)

Government of the People (1951)

Who Are "The People"? (1951)

The United States as Leader (1951)

Conclusion [Dominations and Powers] (1951)

V. Literature, Culture, and Criticism

Sonnet III (1886)

To W. P. (1894)

Prologue [The Last Puritan] (1935)

Epilogue [The Last Puritan] (1935)

The Poetry of Barbarism (1900)

Emerson (1900)

The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911)

English Liberty in America (1920)

The Genteel Tradition at Bay (1931)

The Ethics of Nietzsche (1915)

William James (1920)

Josiah Royce (1920)

Dewey's Naturalistic Metaphysics (1936)

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-10341-5

9786612103414

0-253-00286-9

OCLC:

647770994