03322nam 2200613Ia 450 991081396550332120240417235728.01-281-72160-397866117216020-300-12853-310.12987/9780300128536(CKB)1000000000471975(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171434(SSID)ssj0000162167(PQKBManifestationID)11169687(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000162167(PQKBWorkID)10200381(PQKB)11555811(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165624(MiAaPQ)EBC3419933(DE-B1597)484990(OCoLC)1013955136(DE-B1597)9780300128536(Au-PeEL)EBL3419933(CaPaEBR)ebr10169959(CaONFJC)MIL172160(OCoLC)923588695(EXLCZ)99100000000047197519991014d2000 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrGeorge Santayana, literary philosopher /Irving Singer1st ed.New Haven Yale University Pressc20001 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 217 p.))Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-08037-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-212) and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --1. A Pilgrimage to Santayana --2. His Host the World --3. The Last Puritan --4. Idealization: Santayana versus Freud --5. Santayana's Philosophy of Love --6. Santayana as a Literary Critic --7. Greatness in Art --8. The Basis of Aesthetic and Moral Criticism --Epilogue --Notes --IndexGeorge Santayana was unique in his contribution to American culture. For almost sixty years before his death in 1952, he combined literary and philosophical talents, writing not only important works of philosophy but also a best-selling novel, volumes of poetry, and much literary criticism. In this fascinating portrait of Santayana's thought and complex personality, Irving Singer explores the full range of his harmonization of the literary and the philosophical. Singer shows how Santayana's genius consisted in his imaginative ability to turn various types of personal alienation into creative elements that recur throughout his books. Singer points out that Santayana was a professional philosopher who addressed immediate problems of existence, a materialist in philosophy who believed in both a life of spirit and a life of reason, a product of American pragmatism who nevertheless rebelled against it, a Spaniard who wrote only in English, an American author who spent the last forty years of his life in different European countries. Against the grain of most twentieth-century philosophy, Santayana kept in view questions that matter to us all in our search for meaningful and satisfying lives.Philosophy, ModernPhilosophy, Modern.191Singer Irving551800MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813965503321George Santayana, literary philosopher3967210UNINA