Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.
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A pilgrimage to Santayana -- His host the world -- The last Puritan -- Idealization : Santayana versus Freud -- Santayana's philosophy of love -- Santayana as a literary critic -- Greatness in art -- The basis of aesthetic and moral criticism -- Epilogue.
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George Santayana was unique in his contributions to American culture. For almost sixty years before his death in 1952, he combined literary and philosophical talents, writing not only important works of philosophy but also a best-selling novel, volumes of poetry, and much literary criticism. This portrait of Santayana's thought and complex personality explores the full range of his harmonisation of the literary and the philosophical.