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Book Synopsis The Letters of George Santayana by : George Santayana
Download or read book The Letters of George Santayana written by George Santayana and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of eight books of the correspondence of George Santayana.
Book Synopsis The Works of George Santayana by : George Santayana
Download or read book The Works of George Santayana written by George Santayana and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth of eight books of the correspondence of George Santayana.
Download or read book George Santayana written by John Rodden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan. After a period of relative neglect, interest in his work has revived. A complete edited edition of his works is in progress and he has become the object of renewed scholarly activity. Contributing significantly to the renewal was John McCormick's 1987 biography, the first full-scale volume to treat an elusive figure's life and thought in the detail they deserve. Santayana's life was rich in its interior and outer associations. There was his birth and early childhood in Spain followed by a move to Boston, where he came under the influence of William James at Harvard. This led to his career at Harvard as a professor, where Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Walter Lippmann were among his devoted students. We see Santayana in correspondence and conversation with Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, Ezra Pound, and Robert Lowell. Predominant in Santayana's life was his philosophical work. Hostile to the dominant empiricism of Anglo-American philosophy, he left the academy and remained detached from both the political and ideological movements of early decades of the twentieth century. McCormick relates his skepticism and materialism to a form of idealism deriving from his classical education in Plato and Aristotle, together with his readings in Descartes and Spinoza. He presents Santayana as a supreme stylist in English, who lived a long life always consistent with his stoic epicureanism.
Book Synopsis Scepticism and Animal Faith by : George Santayana
Download or read book Scepticism and Animal Faith written by George Santayana and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1955-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Santayana analyzes the nature of the knowing process and demonstrates by means of clear, powerful arguments how we know and what validates our knowledge. The central concept of his philosophy is found in a careful discrimination between the awareness of objects independent of our perception and the awareness of essences attributed to objects by our mind, or between what Santayana calls the realm of existents and the realm of subsistents. Since we can never be certain that these attributes actually inhere in a substratum of existents, skepticism is established as a form of belief, but animal faith is shown to be a necessary quality of the human mind. Without this faith there could be no rational approach to the necessary problem of understanding and surviving in this world. Santayana derives this practical philosophy from a wide and fascinating variety of sources. He considers critically the positions of such philosophers as Descartes, Euclid, Hume, Kant, Parmenides, Plato, Pythagoras, Schopenhauer, and the Buddhist school as well as the assumptions made by the ordinary man in everyday situations. Such matters as the nature of belief, the rejection of classical idealism, the nature of intuition and memory, symbols and myth, mathematical reality, literary psychology, the discovery of essence, sublimation of animal faith, the implied being of truth, and many others are given detailed analyses in individual chapters.
Book Synopsis Three Philosophical Poets by : George Santayana
Download or read book Three Philosophical Poets written by George Santayana and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University. This book was released on 1910 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Letters of George Santayana, 1921-1927 by : George Santayana
Download or read book The Letters of George Santayana, 1921-1927 written by George Santayana and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Interpretations of Poetry and Religion by : George Santayana
Download or read book Interpretations of Poetry and Religion written by George Santayana and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this valuable work, George Santayana developed the view that poetry is called religion when it intervenes in life, and religion is seen to be nothing but poetry when it merely supervenes upon life. He states that religion and poetry are celebrations of life. Each holds a great value, but if either is misunderstood for science, the art of life will be lost along with the beauty of poetry and religion. Science provides explanations of natural phenomena, but poetry and religion are joyful celebrations of human life born of consciousness. His views contributed immensely to the debate between science and religion at the turn of the century and continue to impact current discussions about the nature of religion. He remained sympathetic to religion and people with religious beliefs throughout the work. He expressed that the religious doctrine might all be just a delusion, but it is generally a helpful one, and the ideal meaning of religion is the nearest thing we have when it comes to complete truth.
Book Synopsis Persons and Places by : George Santayana
Download or read book Persons and Places written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Letters of George Santayana: 1928-1932 by : George Santayana
Download or read book The Letters of George Santayana: 1928-1932 written by George Santayana and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Sense of Beauty by : George Santayana
Download or read book The Sense of Beauty written by George Santayana and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the introduction to this new edition, John McCormick, reminds us that The Sense of Beauty is the first work in aesthetics written in the United States. Santayana was versed in the history of his subject, from Plato and Aristotle to Schopenhauer and Taine in the nineteenth century. Santayana took as his task a complete rethinking of the idea that beauty is embedded in objects. Rather, beauty is an emotion, a value, and a sense of the good. In this aesthetics was unlike ethics: not a correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous. Rather it is a pleasure that residues in the sense of self. The work is divided into chapters on the materials of beauty, form, and expression. A good many of Santayana's later works are presaged by this early effort. And this volume also anticipates the development of art as a movement as well as a value apart from other aspects of life.
Book Synopsis The Life of Reason by : George Santayana
Download or read book The Life of Reason written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of George Santayana by : George Santayana
Download or read book The Works of George Santayana written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Letters of George Santayana: 1910-1920 by : George Santayana
Download or read book The Letters of George Santayana: 1910-1920 written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of George Santayana by : George Santayana
Download or read book The Works of George Santayana written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Persons and Places the Background of My Life by : George Santayana
Download or read book Persons and Places the Background of My Life written by George Santayana and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. 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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Download or read book The Letters of George Santayana written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Letters of George Santayana by : George Santayana
Download or read book The Letters of George Santayana written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: