Santayana George Bücher

Influential philosopher, poet, and literary critic George Santayana (1863-1952) was a thorough naturalist, concerned with the ideal factors in human experience. He held that everything possesses a natural basis and that everything natural has an ideal development. In this one-volume edition of his early work, The Life of Reason (originally published 1905-6), Santayana argues that rational life is embodied in various ideal forms, including religion, and that religion may be embodied in reason. However, this is not to say that religion is grounded in science; rather, religion is poetic, a rendering of natural events in a dramatic form. Hence, to take so-called religious truths as literal claims is preposterous

The great philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist masterfully offers his fascinating outline of Aesthetics Theory. Drawing on the art, literature, and social sciences involved, Santayana discusses the nature of beauty, form, and expression.

Published in 1935, George Santayana's The Last Puritan was the American philosopher's only novel and it became an instant best- seller, immediately linked in its painful voyage of self-discovery to The Education of Henry Adams. It is essentially a novel of ideas expressed in the birth, life, and early death of Oliver Alden. In Oliver's case the puritanical self-destruction that prevented him from realizing his own spirituality is transcended by his attainment of the type of self-knowledge that Santayana recommends throughout his moral philosophy.The Last Puritan is volume four in a new critical edition of George Santayana's wroks that restores Santayana's original text and provides important new scholarly information. Books in this series - the first complete publication of Santayana's works - include an editorial apparatus with notes to the text (identifying persons, places, and ideas), textual commentary (including a description of the composition and publication history, along with a discussion of editorial methods and decisions), lists of variants and emendations, and line-end hyphenations.

The sixth book of the letters of American philosopher George Santayana, covering the years 1937 to 1940. číst celé

Wydane w roku 1896 Poczucie piękna jest pierwszą książką George'a Santayany, urodzonego w Hiszpanii amerykańskiego filozofa i literata. Praca ta, powstała na podstawie jego wykładów na Uniwersytecie Harvarda, zawiera prezentację najważniejszych problemów teorii piękna. Santayana omawia w niej i poddaje krytyce najważniejsze idee tradycyjnej estetyki, takie jak estetyczna bezinteresowność czy powszechność sądów smaku, antycypując przy tym zjawiska, które przyniesie dwudziesty wiek, takie jak dehumanizacja sztuki czy wieszczony niekiedy kryzys estetyki w ogóle. Sprzeciwiając się takim tendencjom, Santayana wskazuje na fundamentalną rolę, jaką przeżycie piękna pełni w życiu każdego człowieka. Poczucie piękna, pierwsza wydana po polsku praca Santayany, jest także przykładem jego talentu literackiego - to napisany lekkim piórem, precyzyjnie obmyślany wykład, który stanowi dobre wprowadzenie do estetyki filozoficznej.