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The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings (American Philosophy)
The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings (American Philosophy) Summary:By Martin A. Coleman
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. Contents Acknowledgments xiii Chronology of the Life and Work of George Santayana xv Bibliographical Abbreviations xix About This Book xxv Introduction: The Essential Santayana xxvii I. Autobiography 1 A General Confession (1940) 4 My Place, Time, and Ancestry (1944) 23 Epilogue on My Host, The World (1949) 30 II. Skepticism and Ontology 39 Philosophical Heresy (1915) 44 Preface [Scepticism and Animal Faith] (1923) 51 There Is No First Principle of Criticism (1923) 55 Dogma and Doubt (1923) 58 Wayward Scepticism (1923) 61 Ultimate Scepticism (1923) 67 Nothing Given Exists (1923) 72 The Discovery of Essence (1923) 76 The Watershed of Criticism (1923) 82 Knowledge Is Faith Mediated by Symbols (1923) 88 Belief in Substance (1923) 98 Literary Psychology (1923) 104 The Implied Being of Truth (1923) 110 Comparison with Other Criticisms of Knowledge (1923) 116 Normal Madness (1925) 128 Some Meanings of the Word “Is” (1924) 138 Preface to Realms of Being (1927) 114499 Various Approaches to Essence (1927) 158 The Being Proper to Essences (1927) 168 The Scope of Natural Philosophy (1930) 173 Indispensable Properties of Substance (1930) 179 Teleology (1930) 188 The Psyche (1930) 198 There Are No Necessary Truths (1937) 214 Facts Arbitrary, Logic Ideal (1937) 220 Interplay between Truth and Logic (1937) 225 Dramatic Truth (1937) 231 Moral Truth (1937) 236 Love and Hatred of Truth (1937) 243 Denials of Truth (1937) 253 III. Rational Life in Art, Reli gion, and Spirituali ty 261 The Elements and Function of Poetry (1900) 265 Introduction [The Life of Reason] (1905) 282 The Birth of Reason (1905) 297 How Religion May Be an Embodiment of Reason (1905) 303 Justification of Art (1905) 309 The Criterion of Taste (1905) 320 Art and Happiness (1905) 331 Ultimate Religion (1933) 338 The Nature of Spirit (1940) 346 Liberation (1933) 357 Union (1933) 375 IV. Ethics and Poli tics 409 Prerational Morality (1906) 412 Rational Ethics (1906) 422 Post-Rational Morality (1906) 435 Hypostatic Ethics (1913) 452 Public Opinion (1951) 461 Government of the People (1951) 464 Who Are “The People”? (1951) 466 The United States as Leader (1951) 470 Conclusion [Dominations and Powers] (1951) 474 V. Literature, Culture, and Criticism 479 Sonnet III (1886) 482 To W. P. (1894) 483 Prologue [The Last Puritan] (1935) 486 Epilogue [The Last Puritan] (1935) 493 The Poetry of Barbarism (1900) 497 Emerson (1900) 519 The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911) 526 English Liberty in America (1920) 541 The Genteel Tradition at Bay (1931) 555 The Ethics of Nietzsche (1915) 578 William James (1920) 584 Josiah Royce (1920) 595 Dewey’s Naturalistic Metaphysics (1936) 609 Index 623About This Book Given George Santayana’s exquisite style and prolific output, it was difficult to condense his important writings into a single volume. But this wealth of material ensures that everything included in The Essential Santayana is a significant piece of work by an extraordinary thinker. In consultation with the other editors of the Santayana Edition, I composed an initial list of essays and chapters to include in The Essential Santayana. We selected 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. I grouped the selected titles under thematic heads corresponding to his philosophical and literary interests to produce a provisional table of contents, which I then shared with an international group of Santayana scholars. Based on the comments and recommendations of these scholars, I refined the table of contents and began working with the other editors of the Santayana Edition to compile texts for the volume. The texts of the selections in The Essential Santayana were taken, when possible, from The Works of George Santayana (The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., and London), an unmodernized, critical edition of the philosopher’s published and unpublished writings. An “unmodernized” edition retains outdated and idiosyncratic punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and word division in order to reflect the full intent of the author as well as the initial texture of the work. A “critical” edition allows the exercise of editorial judgment in making corrections, changes, and choices among authoritative readings. The goal of the editors of the criticial edition is to produce texts that accurately represent Santayana’s final intentions regarding his works, and to record all evidence (in textual apparatus that lists all variants and emendations) on which editorial decisions have been based. In case a selected text had not yet been published in the critical edition, it was typically drawn from a first edition. The source text was then scanned and the transcription was proofread against the original. Details of the source of each text are provided in an accompanying head note and the bibliography at the front of this book. The editorial approach in this volume takes Santayana’s philosophical writing to be the heart of his work, and the heart of this book consists of three sections addressed to traditionally philosophical themes. The contents of the first and last sections treat personal origins and cultural prospects respectively, but they are not detached from Santayana’s philosophy. He claimed that he stood “in philosophy exactly where [he stood] in daily life;” to do otherwise, he thought, would be dishonest (ES, 51). The five sections of The Essential Santayana—I. Autobiography; II. Skepticism and Ontology; III. Rational Life in Art, Religion, and Spirituality; IV. Ethics and Politics; V. Literature, Culture, and Criticism—reflect the range of Santayana’s thought. Martin A. Coleman Please select one mirror to download
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