Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This volume contains a collection of articles on the nature of America and of being American, composed from lectures originally addressed to British audiences by George Santayana. This fascinating collection, first published in 1921, will appeal to those with an interest in the development of America and its philosophy, and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Santayana s work. The chapters of this book include: The Moral Background, The Academic Environment, William James, Josiah Royce, Later Speculations, Materialism and Idealism in American Life, and English Liberty in America ....

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This vintage book contains George Santayana s 1899 play, "Lucifer: A Theological Tragedy." It is a blank verse drama within which Santayana seems to align himself with the other Harvard poets whose work was dominated by myth. It is a book that will appeal to those with an interest in thought-provoking poetry, and one that is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Santayana s work. George Santayana (1863 - 1952) was an influential philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. He was brought up in the United States and called himself an American, although he always made sure that he had a...

This book brings together two seminal works by George Santayana, one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century: Character and Opinion in the United States, which stands with Tocqueville's Democracy in America as one the most insightful works of American cultural criticism ever written, and "The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy," a landmark text of both philosophical analysis and cultural criticism.

An introduction by James Seaton situates Santayana in the intellectual and cultural context of his own time. Four additional essays include John...

..".Cuando el conocimiento es subjetivizado y considerado como intuicion de sus terminos mas que como el descubrimiento de sus objetos, y cuando, finalmente, el espiritu se declara como absoluto y como la unica forma posible de existencia, entonces yo me rio de la fatuidad y de la ceguera de la pretension y la denomino egotismo." George Santayana"

A well-formatted edition of Scepticism and Animal Faith based on Charles Scribner's Sons 1923 edition.

Originally published in 1933, this book contains five philosophical essays by the famous philosopher and essayist George Santayana. The topics cover both older philosophy, such as those of Locke, as well as philosophy's relationship to newer discoveries, such as the theory of relativity. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in twentieth-century philosophy and the writings of Santayana.

Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe sum up the chief phases of European philosophy, --naturalism, supernaturalism, and romanticism--Ideal relation between philosophy and poetry