Santayana and America : values, liberties, responsibility / by Krysztof Piotr Skowroñski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Skowroñski, Krysztof Piotr.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Civilization--Philosophy.

United States.

Santayana, George, 1863-1952.

Santayana, George.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

George Santayana (1863-1952), a Spanish-American philosopher, is an influential personage on the cultural stage in English- and Spanish-speaking countries. His numerous books and papers on topics as varied as epistemology, ontology, aesthetics, ethics, anthropology, value theory, and American studies, along with his best-selling novel, his sophisticated poetry, and his famous autobiography, make him a vivid and profound source of reflection on the history of American and European thought, as ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-208) and index.

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

ISBN:

1-282-19013-X

9786612190131

1-4438-0623-4

OCLC:

827209120