George Santayana: A Biography

ISBN-13: 9780765805034 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 638 str.

John McCormick; John McCormick

Opis

From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan. After a period of relative neglect, interest in his work has revived. A complete edited edition of his works is in progress and he has become the object of renewed scholarly activity. Contributing signifi cantly to the renewal was John McCormick's 1987 biography, the fi rst full-scale volume to treat an elusive fi gure's life and thought in the detail they deserve.

Spis treści

Introduction; George Santayana; 1: Origins; 2: From Avila to Boston; 3: Harvard College Class of ’86; 4: Bachelor of Arts; 5: Mugging in A Hole: 1887-88; 6: The Uneasy Apprenticeship; 7: In Eliots Kingdom; 8: Santayana, Poet; 9: The Sense of Beauty: 1896-1902; 10: Reason in Common Sense; 11: Reason in Society in Religion, in Art; 12: Reason in Science; 13: Professor Santayana; 14: An Unfond Farewell; 15: The Dark Riddle 1914; 16: Mechanic War; 17: The Fifth Wash of the Tea; 18: Scepticism and Animal Faith; 19: The Realm of Essence; 20: Some Persons and Certain Places; 21: On the Turn; 22: Some Turns of Thought; 23: The Life and Death of Oliver Alden; 24: The Realm of Truth; 25: Moral Dogmatism; 26: 1939: War Again; 27: In the Course of Nature; 28: Enter Ezra Pound, Followed by T S. Eliot; 29: Wartime Italy; 30: The Tiger of the Flesh: 1945-46; 31: Santayana and Robert Lowell; 32: Among Crude Captains; 33: Dominations, Powers, and Unofficial Pupils; 34: All to the Furrow, Nothing to the Grave; Appendixes; Appendix A: A Married Couple; Appendix B: Santayana’s Marginalia to Jean-Christophe; Appendix C: Santayana as Screenwriter

O autorze

John McCormick