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George Santayana - A Biography (Paperback, New Ed)
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George Santayana - A Biography (Paperback, New Ed)
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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 significantly to the renewal was John
McCormick's 1987 biography, the first full-scale volume to treat an
elusive figure's life and thought in the detail they deserve.
Santayana's life was rich in its interior and outer associations.
There was his birth and early childhood in Spain followed by a move
to Boston, where he came under the influence of William James at
Harvard. This led to his career at Harvard as a professor, where
Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
and Walter Lippmann were among his devoted students. We see
Santayana in correspondence and conversation with Bertrand Russell,
G.E. Moore, Ezra Pound, and Robert Lowell. Predominant in
Santayana's life was his philosophical work. Hostile to the
dominant empiricism of Anglo-American philosophy, he left the
academy and remained detached from both the political and
ideological movements of early decades of the twentieth century.
McCormick relates his skepticism and materialism to a form of
idealism deriving from his classical education in Plato and
Aristotle, together with his readings in Descartes and Spinoza. He
presents Santayana as a supreme stylist in English, who lived a
long life always consistent with his stoic epicureanism.
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