George Santayana
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[1957]
Description
In 1900, Santayana's assault on conventional pieties outraged contemporaries like William James. This first work of prose criticism asserts that "poetry is called religion when it intervenes in life, and religion, when it merely supervenes upon life, is seen to be nothing but poetry." Santayana's ideas continue to influence debates over science and religion.
Author
Publisher
Braziller
Pub. Date
1955
Description
Published in 1920, this collection of essays and lectures features Santayana's impressions of American national character. He discusses topics, such as morality, academia, materialism, idealism, and liberty—as well as people, such as William James and Josiah Royce. "There is much forgetfulness," he writes in his preface, "much callow disrespect for what is past or alien; but there is a fund of vigour, goodness, and hope."
Author
Series
Everyman's library. Philosophy and theology volume no. 481
Publisher
J.M. Dent & Sons
Pub. Date
[1910]
