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The Letters of George Santayana

By: George Santayana

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The Letters of George Santayana

By: George Santayana

The second of eight books of the correspondence of George Santayana.

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The Letters of George Santayana, Book Eight, 1948-1952

By: George Santayana

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The Letters of George Santayana, Book Eight, 1948-1952

By: George Santayana

Letters from the last years of Santayana's life, written as he completed Dominations and Powers, the final volume of his autobiography, and the one-volume abridgement of his early five-part masterwork, The Life of Reason. This final volume of Santayana's letters spans the last five years of the philosopher's life. Despite the increasing infirmities of age and illness, Santayana continued to be remarkably productive during these years, working steadily until September 1952, when he died of stomach cancer, just three months short of his eighty-ninth birthday. Still living in the nursing home run by the "Blue Sisters" of the Little Company of Mary in Rome (now with such prewar luxuries as hot baths and central heating restored), Santayana completed his book Dominations and Powers, which had been more than fifty years in the making, the final part of his autobiography Persons and Places, published posthumously in 1953 as My Host the World, and the abridgement of his early five-part masterwork, The Life of Reason, into a single volume--all while continuing to maintain a voluminous correspondence with friends and admirers. The eight books of The Letters of George Santayana bring together over 3,000 letters, many of which have been discovered in the fifty years since Santayana's death. Letters in Book Eight are written to such correspondents as the young American poet Robert Lowell (whom Santayana thinks of "only as a friend and not merely as a celebrity" and to whom he sends a wedding gift of $500); Ira D. Cardiff, the editor of Atoms of Thought, a collection of excerpts from Santayana's writings (which, Santayana complained, portrayed him as more akin to Tom Paine than Thomas Aquinas); Richard Colton Lyon, a young Texan who would later collect Santayana's writings about America in Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy (1968); and the humanist philosopher Corliss Lamont.

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0262195712

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The Letters of George Santayana: 1928-1932

By: George Santayana

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The Letters of George Santayana: 1928-1932

By: George Santayana

George Santayana published The Realm of Matter (1930) and The Genteel Tradition atBay (1931). He continued work on Book Three of Realms of Being, The Realm of Truth, and on hisnovel, The Last Puritan. Citing his commitment to his writing and his intention to retire fromacademia, he declined offers from Harvard University for the Norton Chair of Poetry and for aposition as William James Professor of Philosophy, as well as offers for positions at the New Schoolfor Social Research and Brown University. The deaths of his half sisters, Susan Sturgis de Sastreand Josephine Sturgis, in 1928 and 1930, respectively, were extremely distressing to him. Santayanaand Charles Strong continued their epistolary debate over the nature and perception of reality andthe problem of knowledge. The book also includes letters to Robert Bridges, Cyril Clemens, Morris R.Cohen, Curt John Ducasse, Sydney Hook, Horace Meyer Kallen, Walter Lippmann, Ralph Barton Perry,William Lyon Phelps, and Herbert W. Schneider. Santayana sent many letters with articles and reviewsto journalists Wendell T. Bush, Henry Seidel Canby, Wilbur Cross, and John Middleton Murry.Discussion of his novel and continuing work on Realms of Being took place with Otto Kyllmann andJohn Hall Wheelock, his editors at Constable and Scribner's. Although Santayana now made the HotelBristol in Rome his permanent residence, he continued to travel in England, France, andItaly.

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Mit Press

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0262194791

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Physical Order and Moral Liberty

Previously Unpublished Essays of George Santayana

By: George Santayana

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Physical Order and Moral Liberty

Previously Unpublished Essays of George Santayana

By: George Santayana

Unpublished essays of Santayana.

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Vanderbilt University Press

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0826511317

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9780826511317

The Letters of George Santayana, 1921-1927

By: George Santayana

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The Letters of George Santayana, 1921-1927

By: George Santayana

Since the first selection of George Santayana's letters was published in 1955, shortly after his death, many more letters have been located. "The Works of George Santayana, Volume V", brings together a total of more than 3000 letters.

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Mit Press

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0262194740

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The Birth of Reason & Other Essays

By: George Santayana

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The Birth of Reason & Other Essays

By: George Santayana

This collection of essays by the prominent American philosopher George Santayana includes the famous "The Birth of Reason," "The Philosophy of Travel," "Bertrand Russell's Searchlight," "Appearance and Reality," and "On the False Steps of Philosophy." Also included are essays on Hellenism, Goethe's "Faust," the politics of religion, friendship, and Tom Sawyer as a latterday Don Quixote.

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Columbia University Press

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0231102771

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The Life of Reason

Introduction and Reason in Common Sense

By: George Santayana

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The Life of Reason

Introduction and Reason in Common Sense

By: George Santayana

Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the development of the human capacity for appreciating and cultivating the ideal. It is a capacity he exhibits as he articulates a continuity running through animal impulse, practical intelligence, and ideal harmony in reason, society, art, religion, and science. The work is an exquisitely rendered vision of human life lived sanely. In this first book of the work, Santayana provides an account of how the human animal develops instinct, passion, and chaotic experience into rationality and ideal life. Inspired by Aristotle's De Anima, Darwin's evolutionary theory, and William James's The Principles of Psychology, Santayana contends that the requirements of action in a hazardous and uncertain environment are the sources of the development of mind. More specifically, instinct and imagination are crucial to the emergence of reason from chaos. Separating himself from the typical thought of the time by his recognition of the imagination, Santayana in this volume offers extensive critiques of various philosophies of mind, including those of Kant and the British empiricists. This Critical Edition, volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, includes a chronology, notes, bibliography, textual commentary, lists of variants, and other tools useful to Santayana scholars.

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MIT Press

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0262016745

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The Letters of George Santayana, Book Seven, 1941-1947

By: George Santayana

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The Letters of George Santayana, Book Seven, 1941-1947

By: George Santayana

The seventh and penultimate book of the letters of American philosopher George Santayana, covering the years 1941 to 1947 and including letters to such correspondents as Daniel Cory, John Hall Wheelock, Robert Lowell, and others.

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0262282976

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The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, critical edition, Volume 7

Reason in Religion, Volume VII, Book Three

By: George Santayana

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The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, critical edition, Volume 7

Reason in Religion, Volume VII, Book Three

By: George Santayana

The third of five books in one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the development of the human capacity for appreciating and cultivating the ideal. It is a capacity he exhibits as he articulates a continuity running through animal impulse, practical intelligence, and ideal harmony in reason, society, art, religion, and science. The work is an exquisitely rendered vision of human life lived sanely. In this third book, Santayana offers a naturalistic interpretation of religion. He believes that religion is ignoble if regarded as a truthful depiction of real beings and events; but regarded as poetry, it might be the greatest source of wisdom. Santayana analyzes four characteristic religious concerns: piety, spirituality, charity, and immortality. He is at his most profound in his discussion of immortality, arguing for an ideal immortality that does not eradicate the fear of death but offers a way for mortal man to share in immortal things and live in a manner that will bestow on his successors the imprint of his soul. This critical edition, volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, includes notes, textual commentary, lists of variants and emendations, bibliography, and other tools useful to Santayana scholars. The other four books of the volume include Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science.

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0262028328

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Character and Opinion in the United States

By: George Santayana

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Character and Opinion in the United States

By: George Santayana

George Santayana was one of the most influential twentieth-century philosophers. Because of his broad-ranging interests and lack of any permanent home in one particular country, he has often been stereotyped as a meditative philosopher removed from the world, living in what he himself called the "realm of spirit" among eternal essences. While there is some truth in this characterization, it is also true that Santayana was a penetrating analyst and critic of contemporary societies.'Character and Opinion in the United States' is his comprehensive critique of American thought and civilization and reflects the detached cosmopolitan perspective that lent his criticism its characteristic objectivity and strength. Santayana's subject here is the conflict of materialism and idealism in American life. In his view there exists a dualism in the American mind: One side, dealing with religion, literature, philosophy, and morality, tended to stay with inherited, old doctrines-the genteel tradition-and failed to keep pace with the other, practical side and its new developments in industry, invention, and social organization. Santayana traces the first mentality to Calvinism and its sense of sin, an attitude out of keeping with a new civilization and the dominance of practical interests. As a consequence of separating philosophy from everyday life, its study merely served religious and moral interests cut off from the free search for truth. At the heart of the book is Santayana's examination of the influential thought of William James and Josiah Royce, who typified for him the dilemma of American thought. The subordination of thought to social form and custom underlies Santayana's sharp critique of academic philosophy at Harvard where he early on studied and taught. He was disturbed by the very idea of philosophy as an academic discipline. Philosophy, he felt, should be an individual, original creation, "something dark, perilous, untested, and not ripe to be taught" Santayana's analysis of how social imperatives may impede the pursuit of knowledge remains pertinent to contemporary intellectual debate. This volume ill be of interest to philosophers, intellectual historians, and American studies specialists.

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Routledge

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1351529382

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9781351529389

The Genteel Tradition

Nine Essays

By: George Santayana

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The Genteel Tradition

Nine Essays

By: George Santayana

George Santayana probably did more than anyone except Alexis de Tocqueville to shape the critical view of American culture. The great Spanish philosopher and writer coined the phrase "genteel tradition", introducing it to a California audience in 1911. That address appears in this collection of nine essays touching on American idealism and materialism and American endeavor, sacred and profane.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803292511

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The Essential Santayana

Selected Writings

By: George Santayana

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The Essential Santayana

Selected Writings

By: George Santayana

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.

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Indiana University Press

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0253221056

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Character and Opinion in the United States, with Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America

By: George Santayana

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Character and Opinion in the United States, with Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America

By: George Santayana

This volume contains a collection of articles on the nature of America and of being American, composed from lectures originally addressed to British audiences by George Santayana. This fascinating collection, first published in 1921, will appeal to those with an interest in the development of America and its philosophy, and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Santayana's work. The chapters of this book include: "The Moral Background", "The Academic Environment", "William James", "Josiah Royce", "Later Speculations", "Materialism and Idealism in American Life", and "English Liberty in America". George Santayana (1863 - 1952) was an influential philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. He was brought up in the United States and called himself an American, despite the fact that he always made sure that he had a valid Spanish passport. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.

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Read Books Ltd

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1473375339

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The Life Of Reason: Reason In Art

By: George Santayana

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The Life Of Reason: Reason In Art

By: George Santayana

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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1011270811

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The Works of George Santayana

The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5

By: George Santayana

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The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5

By: George Santayana

The fifth of eight books of the correspondence of George Santayana.

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0262194902

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The Letters of George Santayana

By: George Santayana

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By: George Santayana

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The Letters of George Santayana, Book Eight, 1948-1952

By: George Santayana

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By: George Santayana

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George Santayana

By: George W. Howgate

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George Santayana

By: George W. Howgate

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, critical edition, Volume 7

Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

By: George Santayana

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The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, critical edition, Volume 7

Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

By: George Santayana

The second of five books of one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the development of the human capacity for appreciating and cultivating the ideal. It is a capacity he exhibits as he articulates a continuity running through animal impulse, practical intelligence, and ideal harmony in reason, society, art, religion, and science. The work is an exquisitely rendered vision of human life lived sanely. In this second book, Santayana analyzes several distinctive forms of human association, from political and economic orders to forms of friendship, to determine what possibilities they provide for the life of reason. He considers, among other topics, love and the affinity for the ideal, the family, aristocracy and democracy, the constituents of genuinely free friendship (including that of husband and wife), patriotism, and the ideal society of kindred spirits. This Critical Edition, volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, includes a chronology, notes, bibliography, textual commentary, lists of variants, and other tools useful to Santayana scholars. The other four books of the volume include Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Religion, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science.

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0262314673

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Persons and Places

Fragments of Autobiography

By: George Santayana

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Persons and Places

Fragments of Autobiography

By: George Santayana

This edition of his autobiography restores passages that were deleted in the original book because of the publisher's sensitivities about lawsuits, printing and production convenience, a general desire by editors to "soften" some of his remarks, and his own request that portions be published only after his death.

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Bradford Books

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0262691140

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