| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 612 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-584) and index. |
| Contents |
Origins -- From Avila to Boston -- Harvard College, Class of '86 -- Bachelor of Arts -- Mugging in a Hole: 1887-88 -- The Uneasy Apprenticeship -- In Eliot's Kingdom -- Santayana, Poet -- The Sense of Beauty: 1896-1902 -- Reason in Common Sense -- Reason in Society, in Religion, in Art -- Reason in Science -- Professor Santayana -- An Unfond Farewell -- The Dark Riddle: 1914 -- Mechanic War -- The Fifth Wash of the Tea -- Scepticism and Animal Faith -- The Realm of Essence -- Some Persons and Certain Places -- On the Turn -- Some Turns of Thought -- The Life and Death of Oliver Alden -- The Realm of Truth -- Moral Dogmatism: Santayana as Anti-Semite -- 1939: War Again -- In the Course of Nature -- Enter Ezra Pound, Followed by T. S. Eliot -- Wartime Italy -- The Tiger of the Flesh: 1945-46 -- Santayana and Robert Lowell -- Among Crude Captains -- Dominations, Powers, and Unofficial Pupils -- All to the Furrow, Nothing to the Grave -- A Married Couple -- Santayana's Marginalia to Jean-Christophe -- Santayana as Screenwriter. |
| Subject |
Santayana, George, 1863-1952.
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Philosophers -- United States -- Biography.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: McCormick, John, 1918- George Santayana. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1987 (OCoLC)610249490 |
| ISBN |
0394510372 |
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9780394510378 |
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