"Persons And Places - The Background Of My Life" is a fascinating autobiographical volume written by George Santayana and published in 1944. It weaves together the threads of the philosopher and the biographer - to furnish a charming and rather profound picture of the people and places that have contributed to Santayana's character and thought. This book is highly recommended for fans of Santayana s work. The chapters of this book include: Time, Place and Ancestry, My Father, My Mother, The Sturgises, My Sister Susana, Avila, Early Memories, I am Transported to America, No. 302 Beacon Street,...

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"

Jorge Agustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana y Borras, known as George Santayana (December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. He wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters. At the age of forty-eight, Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently, never to return to the United States. His last will was to be buried in the Spanish Pantheon of the Cimitero Monumentale del Verano in Rome. Santayana is known for famous sayings, such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat...

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