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129Dewey's Empirical Theory of Knowledge and Reality. The Vanderbilt Library of American PhilosophyJournal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (4): 326-329. 2001.
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81Rorty & pragmatism: the philosopher responds to his critics (edited book)Vanderbilt University Press. 1995.A penetrating and illuminating exchange of views between Richard Rorty, a highly influential and sometimes controversial philosopher, and seven of his most thoughtful critics, providing new insights into the impact of his work on contemporary American philosophy.
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62George SantayanaNewsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. 2008.Philosopher, poet, literary and cultural critic, George Santayana is a principal figure in Classical American Philosophy. His naturalism and emphasis on creative imagination were harbingers of important intellectual turns on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a naturalist before naturalism grew popular; he appreciated multiple perfections before multiculturalism became an issue; he thought of philosophy as literature before it became a theme in American and European scholarly circles; and he man…Read more
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32Character and Philosophic Creativity–the Example of SantayanaOverheard in Seville 36 (36): 89-98. 2018.
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312008 Herbert Schneider Award citation for Angus Kerr-LawsonNewsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 36 (107): 4-6. 2008.
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21The Letters of George Santayana, Book Four, 1928--1932: The Works of George Santayana, Volume V (edited book)MIT Press. 2003.George Santayana published The Realm of Matter and The Genteel Tradition at Bay. He continued work on Book Three of Realms of Being, The Realm of Truth, and on his novel, The Last Puritan. Citing his commitment to his writing and his intention to retire from academia, he declined offers from Harvard University for the Norton Chair of Poetry and for a position as William James Professor of Philosophy, as well as offers for positions at the New School for Social Research and Brown University. The …Read more
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20SantayanaPersons and Places: Fragments of Autobiography.George Santayana: A BiographyJournal of the History of Ideas 48 (4): 719. 1987.
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19Santayana: Hispanic-American PhilosopherTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 34 (1). 1998.
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18The Letters of George Santayana, Book Five, 1933--1936: The Works of George Santayana, Volume V (edited book)MIT Press. 2001.During the period covered by this book, George Santayana had settled permanently in Rome. His best-selling novel, The Last Puritan, was published in London in 1935 and in the United States in 1936, where it was chosen as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. In 1936 Santayana became one of the few philosophers ever to appear on the front cover of Time magazine. His growing influence was evidenced further by two other 1936 publications, Obiter Scripta: Lectures, Essays and Reviews and Philosophy of…Read more
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16Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (edited book)MIT Press. 1990.Interpretations of Poetry and Religion is the third volume in a new critical edition of the complete works of George Santayana that restores Santayana's original text and provides important new scholarly information.Published in the spring of 1900, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion was George Santayana's first book of critical prose. It developed his view that "poetry is called religion when it intervenes in life, and religion, when it merely supervenes upon life, is seen to be nothing but …Read more
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15Santayana’s Autobiography and the Development of his PhilosophyOverheard in Seville 4 (4): 18-27. 1986.
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15The Letters of George Santayana, Book Three, 1921--1927: The Works of George Santayana, Volume V (edited book)MIT Press. 2002.Book Three of George Santayana's letters covers a period of intense intellectual activity in Santayana's life, and the correspondence reflects the establishment of his mature philosophy. Santayana becomes more permanently established in Italy, but continues to travel in France, Spain, and England. The year 1927 marks the beginning of his long friendship with Daniel Cory, who became his literary secretary and eventually his literary executor. Also, with the death of Santayana's half-brother Rober…Read more
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14A Life of Scholarship with Santayana: Essays and Reflections (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2021.Herman J. Saatkamp’s _A Life of Scholarship with Santayana: Essays and Reflections_ gathers together his work of a lifetime. There are twenty-three pieces, in three sections: “Santayana and Philosophy,” “Editorship,” and “Genetic Concerns and the Future of Philosophy.”
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13John Lachs: Mediation, Love of Life, and SantayanaTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 59 (3): 297-312. 2024.Abstract:John Lachs considers his major philosophical contributions to be his work on mediation, the love of life, and his explication of George Santayana's philosophical and literary outlooks. All three are undergirded by Lachs's effort to make philosophy relevant to people's lives. This article examines these three contributions with both a critical eye and an admiration for Lachs's efforts. The conclusion provides an assessment often missed in critiques of Lachs's work.
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13The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel (edited book)Bradford. 1995.Published in 1935, George Santayana's The Last Puritan was the American philosopher's only novel. It became an instant best-seller, immediately linked in its painful voyage of self discovery to The Education of Henry Adams. It is essentially a novel of ideas, expressed in the birth, life, and early death of Oliver Alden.The Last Puritan is volume four in a new critical edition of The Works of George Santayana that restores Santayana's original text and provides important new scholarly informatio…Read more
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13The Letters of George Santayana, Book Two, 1910--1920: The Works of George Santayana, Volume V (edited book)MIT Press. 2001.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 3,000 letters. The volume is divided chronologically into eight books of roughly comparable length. Book Two covers Santayana's first decade as a "freelance philosopher," following his resignation from Harvard University and move to Europe. Of particular interest is Santayana's co…Read more
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12The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Vol. 2 of The Works of George SantayanaJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (3): 301-301. 1989.
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12The Letters of George Santayana, Book Six, 1937--1940: The Works of George Santayana, Volume V (edited book)MIT Press. 2004.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. This sixth book covers four years of Santayana's life in Rome, his permanent residence since the late 1920s. During these years, Santayana, in his seventies, saw the publication of the remaining nine volumes of the Triton Edition of his work as well as the last two books of his Realms of Being: The Realm of Truth and The Realm of Spi…Read more
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11Santayana: Philosopher for the Twenty-First CenturyIn Martin A. Coleman & Glenn Tiller (eds.), The Palgrave Companion to George Santayana’s Scepticism and Animal Faith, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 11-32. 2024.Scepticism and Animal Faith marks a turning point in Santayana’s philosophy leading to the development of his complete naturalism, and, if followed, leads to a decisive change in philosophical inquiry that was a century ahead of his time. Indeed, much of what Santayana explicates in this book is now central to inquiries in the social and biological sciences that attempt to understand human behavior. In short, he turns philosophy on its head. Before Santayana, philosophers often thought humans we…Read more
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