Santayana at 150: International Interpretations is a collection of essays by seventeen authors celebrating the life and thought of SpanishAmerican philosopher George Santayana. This book appears on the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Santayanas birth. Appropriately, the authors come from both sides of the Atlantic and put forth a range of insights that demonstrate the continuing life and relevance of Santayanas thinking. The book includes considerations of the major themes of his philosophymaterialism, naturalistic ethics, and aestheticsand of the influence exerted on Santayanas work by his life circumstances and geographic surroundings, especially of Rome.
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This rich collection demonstrates the breadth and depth of Santayanas philosophical reach. His influence spans continents and disciplinary specializations, and the chapters included in this volume display the ongoing significance of Santayanas original ideas. This book is a fitting tribute to the birth of a man who lives on in the insightful contributions of these writers. -- Jessica Wahman Giuseppe Patella hits the nail on the head in the introduction when he mentions the task of thinking [ Santayanas heritage] over again and letting it resound in our current intellectual concerns. The task . . . has been fully achieved and we get a novel, inspiring collection, indispensable for any Santayana scholar willing to keep him/herself up to date. Moreover, the attention given to Santayanas life and personality as interconnected with his intellectual biography, set in a broad context of intellectual and cultural milieu of the era, constitutes an added value and makes the book of interest for a broader circle of philosophically-oriented readers and scholars of American Studies worldwide. * Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society *
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Part I Reconciling Material and Ideal Realities |
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Chapter 1 Bifurcation of Materialism |
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Chapter 2 Free Will for a Materialist |
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Chapter 3 Nature and the Ideal in Santayana's Philosophy |
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Chapter 4 Mediterranean Aestheticism, Epicurean Materialism |
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Part II Santayana's Cosmopolitanism |
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Chapter 5 Santayana: Cosmopolitanism and the Spiritual Life |
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Chapter 6 Poetic Italy in the Works of Santayana |
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Chapter 7 A Traveling Philosophy |
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Chapter 8 Ruins as Seats of Values |
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Chapter 9 Santayana's Theory of Art |
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Part III Morality and Truth |
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Chapter 10 Scientific Ethics |
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Chapter 11 On Celebrating the Death of Another Person |
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Chapter 12 The Realm of Truth in Santayana |
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Chapter 13 Was Santayana a Stoic Pragmatist? |
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Part IV The Personal and the Spiritual |
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Chapter 14 Santayana's Epicureanism |
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Chapter 15 The World, a Stage |
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Chapter 16 Transcending Means and Ends Near the End of Life |
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Chapter 17 Santayana's Relationship to Rome |
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| Afterword |
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| Index |
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| About the Contributors |
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Matthew Caleb Flamm is associate professor of philosophy at Rockford University, in Rockford, IL. He is coeditor of Under Any Sky: Contemporary Readings of George Santayana, with Krzysztof Piotr Skowroski.
Giuseppe Patella is professor of aesthetics and art history at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) and director of IRCAInternational Research Center for Aesthetics and Art Theory. He author of Belleza, Arte y Vida: La estética mediterrįnea de George Santayana and Filosofia del viaggio.
Jennifer A. Rea teaches English at Keith Country Day School, in Rockford, IL. She is coeditor of The Continuing Relevance of John Dewey: Reflections of Aesthetics, Morality, Science and Society.
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