George Santayana at 150 (eBook, ePUB)

International Intepretations
Redaktion: Flamm, Matthew C.; Rea, Jennifer A.; Patella, Giuseppe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Santayana at 150: International Interpretations is a collection of essays by seventeen authors celebrating the life and thought of Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana. This book appears on the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Santayana's 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 Santayana's thinking. The book includes considerations of the major themes of his philosophy-materialism, naturalistic ethics, and aesthetics-and of the influence exerted on Santayana's work by his life circumstances and geographic surroundings, especially of Rome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739183090
• Artikelnr.: 40286890

Autorenporträt

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 Skowronski. Giuseppe Patella is professor of aesthetics and art history at the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) and director of IRCA-International Research Center for Aesthetics and Art Theory. He author of Belleza, Arte y Vida: La estética mediterránea 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.

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction
Part I: Reconciling Material and Ideal Realities
Section Introduction
Chapter 1: Bifurcation of Materialism
Chapter 2: Free Will for a Materialist
Chapter 3: Nature and the Ideal in Santayana's Philosophy
Chapter 4: Mediterranean Aestheticism and Epicurean Materialism
Part II: Santayana's Cosmopolitanism
Section Introduction
Chapter 5: Cosmopolitanism and the Spiritual Life
Chapter 6: Poetic Italy in the Works of Santayana
Chapter 7: A Traveling Philosophy
Chapter 8: Ruins as Seats of Values
Chapter 9: Santayana's Theory of Art
Part III: Morality and Truth
Section Introduction
Chapter 10: Scientific Ethics
Chapter 11: On Celebrating the Death of Another Person
Chapter 12: The Realm of Truth in Santayana
Chapter 13: Was Santayana a Stoic Pragmatist?
Part IV: The Personal and the Spiritual
Section Introduction
Chapter 14: Santayana's Epicureanism
Chapter 15: The World, a Stage
Chapter 16: Transcending Means and Ends Near the End of Life
Chapter 17: Santayana's Relationship to Rome
Afterword
About the Contributors