Lexington Books
Pages: 288
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-8308-3 • Hardback • December 2013 • $143.00 • (£110.00)
978-0-7391-8309-0 • eBook • December 2013 • $135.50 • (£105.00)
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 Skowroński.
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.
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
“This rich collection demonstrates the breadth and depth of Santayana’s philosophical reach. His influence spans continents and disciplinary specializations, and the chapters included in this volume display the ongoing significance of Santayana’s 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 [Santayana’s 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 Santayana’s 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