LEADER 03325nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910777860803321 005 20230422045255.0 010 $a1-281-72160-3 010 $a9786611721602 010 $a0-300-12853-3 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300128536 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471975 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171434 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000162167 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11169687 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000162167 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10200381 035 $a(PQKB)11555811 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165624 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3419933 035 $a(DE-B1597)484990 035 $a(OCoLC)1013955136 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300128536 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3419933 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10169959 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172160 035 $a(OCoLC)923588695 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471975 100 $a19991014d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGeorge Santayana, literary philosopher$b[electronic resource] /$fIrving Singer 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 217 p.)) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-08037-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-212) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. A Pilgrimage to Santayana --$t2. His Host the World --$t3. The Last Puritan --$t4. Idealization: Santayana versus Freud --$t5. Santayana's Philosophy of Love --$t6. Santayana as a Literary Critic --$t7. Greatness in Art --$t8. The Basis of Aesthetic and Moral Criticism --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aGeorge 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. 606 $aPhilosophy, Modern 615 0$aPhilosophy, Modern. 676 $a191 700 $aSinger$b Irving$0551800 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777860803321 996 $aGeorge Santayana, literary philosopher$93716363 997 $aUNINA