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020 $a0300080379 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm42683047
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050 00 $aB945.S24$bS56 2000
082 00 $a191$221
100 1 $aSinger, Irving.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83328620
245 10 $aGeorge Santayana, literary philosopher /$cIrving Singer.
260 $aNew Haven [Conn.] :$bYale University Press,$c[2000], ©2000.
300 $axiii, 217 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-212) and index.
520 1 $a"George Santayana, for almost sixty years before his death in 1952, combined literary and philosophical talents, writing not only important works of philosophy but also a best-selling novel, volumes of poetry, and much literary criticism. In this portrait of Santayana's thought and complex personality, Irving Singer explores the full range of his harmonization of the literary and the philosophical.".
520 8 $a"Singer shows how Santayana's genius consisted in his imaginative ability to turn various types of personal alienation into creative elements that recur throughout his books.
520 8 $aSinger points out that Santayana was a professional philosopher who addressed immediate problems of existence, a materialist in philosophy who believed in both a life of spirit and a life of reason, a product of American pragmatism who nevertheless rebelled against it, a Spaniard who wrote only in English, an American author who spent the last forty years of his life in different European countries.
520 8 $aAgainst the grain of most twentieth-century philosophy, Santayana kept in view questions that matter to us all in our search for meaningful and satisfying lives."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aSantayana, George,$d1863-1952.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043580
852 00 $boff,glx$hB945.S24$iS56 2000