{"product_id":"the-essential-santayana-selected-writings-paperback-softback-9780253221056","title":"The Essential Santayana; Selected Writings (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253221056","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Essential Santayana\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSelected Writings\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartin A. Coleman (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253221056\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 March 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e704 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 3.7 cm, 0.971 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the selections included, one can find many that alone would justify the price of the volume. There are insightful essays on James, on Royce, on Emerson, on Nietzsche, and on the Renaissance humanists. The editors of this volume set out to select, in their words, \"works based on their traditional influence and popularity, their representativeness with respect to Santayana's philosophical vision, or their importance according to Santayana's comments in his correspondence.\" One must say that they have succeeded admirably.\"—\u003ci\u003eReview of Metaphysics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Having emerged from the abyss of literary death, Santayana now stands ready to assume his rightful place among the truly important philosophers of the last several hundred years.\"—John Lachs, \u003ci\u003eVanderbilt University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Santayana\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Chronology of the Life and Work of George Santayana\u003cbr\u003e List of Bibliographical Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Essential Santayana\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Autobiography\u003cbr\u003e A General Confession\u003cbr\u003e My Place, Time, and Ancestry\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue on My Host, the World\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Skepticism and Ontology\u003cbr\u003e Philosophical Heresy\u003cbr\u003e Preface [Scepticism and Animal Faith]\u003cbr\u003e There Is No First Principle of Criticism\u003cbr\u003e Dogma and Doubt\u003cbr\u003e Wayward Scepticism\u003cbr\u003e Ultimate Scepticism\u003cbr\u003e Nothing Given Exists\u003cbr\u003e The Discovery of Essence\u003cbr\u003e The Watershed of Criticism\u003cbr\u003e Knowledge Is Faith Mediated by Symbols\u003cbr\u003e Belief in Substance\u003cbr\u003e Literary Psychology\u003cbr\u003e The Implied Being of Truth\u003cbr\u003e Comparison with Other Criticisms of Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e Normal Madness\u003cbr\u003e Some Meanings of the Word \"Is\"\u003cbr\u003e Preface to Realms of Being\u003cbr\u003e Various Approaches to Essence\u003cbr\u003e The Being Proper to Essences\u003cbr\u003e The Scope of Natural Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e Indispensable Properties of Substance\u003cbr\u003e Teleology\u003cbr\u003e The Psyche\u003cbr\u003e There Are No Necessary Truths\u003cbr\u003e Facts Arbitrary, Logic Ideal\u003cbr\u003e Interplay between Truth and Logic\u003cbr\u003e Dramatic Truth\u003cbr\u003e Moral Truth\u003cbr\u003e Love and Hatred of Truth\u003cbr\u003e Denials of Truth\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Rational Life in Art, Religion, and Spirituality\u003cbr\u003e The Elements and Function of Poetry\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e The Birth of Reason\u003cbr\u003e How Religion May Be an Embodiment of Reason\u003cbr\u003e Justification of Art\u003cbr\u003e The Criterion of Taste\u003cbr\u003e Art and Happiness\u003cbr\u003e Ultimate Religion\u003cbr\u003e The Nature of Spirit\u003cbr\u003e Liberation\u003cbr\u003e Union\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. Ethics and Politics\u003cbr\u003e Prerational Morality\u003cbr\u003e Rational Ethics\u003cbr\u003e Post-rational Morality\u003cbr\u003e Hypostatic Ethics\u003cbr\u003e Public Opinion\u003cbr\u003e Government of the People\u003cbr\u003e Who Are \"The People\"?\u003cbr\u003e The United States as Leader\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion [Dominations and Powers]\u003cbr\u003e Part 5. Literature, Culture, and Criticism\u003cbr\u003e Sonnet III\u003cbr\u003e To W. P.\u003cbr\u003e Prologue [The Last Puritan]\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue [The Last Puritan]\u003cbr\u003e The Poetry of Barbarism\u003cbr\u003e Emerson\u003cbr\u003e The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e English Liberty in America\u003cbr\u003e The Genteel Tradition at Bay\u003cbr\u003e The Ethics of Nietzsche\u003cbr\u003e William James\u003cbr\u003e Josiah Royce\u003cbr\u003e Dewey's Naturalistic Metaphysics\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670830117144,"sku":"9780253221056","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-essential-santayana-selected-writings-paperback-softback-9780253221056","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}