Santayana on America
Subtitle: essays, notes, and letters on American life, literature, and philosophy.
By: Edited and with an introd. by Richard Colton Lyon.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: An Original harbinger book
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Philosophy, American.; National characteristics, American.; American literature -- History and criticism.; United States -- Civilization.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: A brief history of my opinions.; title: Tradition and practice.; title: The genteel tradition in American philosophy.; title: The moral background.; title: William James.; title: Josiah Royce.; title: Dewey's naturalistic metaphysics.; title: The genteel tradition at bay.; title: English liberty in America.; title: A letter to Logan Pearsall Smith.; title: America's young radicals.; title: Marginal notes on civilization in the United States.; title: Americanism.; title: From Dominations and powers.; title: What is a Philistine?; title: The elements and function of poetry.; title: Emerson.; title: Emerson the poet.; title: Walt Whitman: a dialogue.; title: The poetry of barbarism II: Walt Whitman.; title: Genteel American poetry.; title: A marginal note.; title: Letters.