Santayana : : Saint of the Imagination / / Mossie Kirkwood.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Kirkwood, Mossie,
• MitwirkendeR: Cory, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1961
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)

This book has its origin in the author's deep admiration for its subject as a man of great cultivation with the instinct of veneration as well as the determination to learn and to face the facts, an engaging human being as well as an exciting thinker. Her aim has been to encourage a wider reading of Santayana himself. With this purpose she provides an intimate picture of the man using material from his letters and making reference to his autobiography and other philosophical works; but within the biographical framework she also expounds his thought, endeavouring to show the high quality of her subject's "religion" of the imagination. The result is a firmly handled, quietly mannered exposition of the growth of Santayana's mind as seen in his books and the small events of his life as scholar and thinker. It will be suggestive for the general reader and a helpful introduction for the student.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Beginnings in Spain -- Chapter 2. Home And School In America -- Chapter 3. The Harvard Undergraduate -- Chapter 4. Studies Abroad And Return To America -- Chapter 5. The Young Poet -- Chapter 6. The Young Philosopher -- Chapter 7. The Harvard Professor -- Chapter 8. The Amalgamating Imagination At Work: Lucifer -- Chapter 9. The Imagination Producing A Philosophy— The Life Of Reason (I) -- Chapter 10. The Imagination Producing A Philosophy— The Life Of Reason (II) -- Chapter 11. The Life Of A Travelling Student -- Chapter 12. The Imagination Amalgamates All Realms Of Being -- Chapter 13. The Religious Imagination— The Idea Of Christ In The Gospels -- Chapter 14. A Philosopher Completes His Task -- Chapter 15. Finale -- Facsimile Of Letter From Santayana To Professor W. A. Kirkwood -- Index