George Santayana : literary philosopher

234 Pages·2000·3.868 MB·English

by  Singer, Irving, Santayana, George

George Santayana,Literary Philosopher
Books by Irving Singer
George Santayana,Literary Philosopher
Reality Transformed:Film as Meaning and Technique
Meaning in Life
The Creation of Value
The Pursuit of Love
The Harmony of Nature and Spirit
The Nature of Love
Plato to Luther
Courtly and Romantic
The Modern World
Mozart and Beethoven:The Concept of Love in Their Operas
The Goals of Human Sexuality
Santayana’s Aesthetics
Essays in Literary Criticism by George Santayana (editor)
The Nature and Pursuit of Love:The Philosophy
of Irving Singer (edited by David Goicoechea)
George Santayana, Literary Philosopher
Irving Singer
Yale University Press New Haven & London
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George Santayana,literary philosopher / Irving Singer.
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Contents
Preface ix
 A Pilgrimage to Santayana 
 His Host the World 
 The Last Puritan 
 Idealization:Santayana versus Freud 
 Santayana’s Philosophy of Love 
 Santayana as a Literary Critic 
 Greatness in Art 
 The Basis of Aesthetic and Moral Criticism 
Epilogue 
Notes 
Index 

Preface
   ,the American philosopher who meant
the most to me was John Dewey.During my early years,which co-
incided with the Depression and World War II,Dewey represented
most ofwhat I believed in at the time:naturalism,humanism,dem-
ocratic pluralism,pragmatism as the clue to knowledge.I felt that
he,better than any other philosopher I had read,understood the
goodness ofa healthy-minded life that combines the best in science
and in art.My undergraduate honors thesis on Dewey’s theory of
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