The Genteel Tradition At Bay
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The Genteel Tradition At Bay
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Author : George Santayana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Genteel Tradition At Bay written by George Santayana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Genteel Tradition In American Philosophy And Character And Opinion In The United States
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Author : George Santayana
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2009-10-27
Genteel Tradition In American Philosophy And Character And Opinion In The United States written by George Santayana and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-27 with History categories.
This book brings together two seminal works by George Santayana, one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century: Character and Opinion in the United States, which stands with Tocqueville's Democracy in America as one the most insightful works of American cultural criticism ever written, and The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy, a landmark text of both philosophical analysis and cultural criticism. An introduction by James Seaton situates Santayana in the intellectual and cultural context of his own time. Four additional essays include John Lachs on the ways Santayana's understanding of the soul of America help explain the relative peace among nationalities and ethnic groups in the United States; Wilfred M. McClay on Santayana's life of the mind as it relates to dominant trends in American culture; Roger Kimball on Santayana's most uncommon benefice, common sense; and James Seaton on Santayana's distinction between English liberty and fierce liberty. All the essays serve to highlight the relevance of Santayana's ideas to current issues in American culture, including education, immigration, and civil rights.
The Genteel Tradition
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Author : George Santayana
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
The Genteel Tradition written by George Santayana and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
George Santayana probably did more than anyone except Alexis de Tocqueville to shape the critical view of American culture. The great Spanish philosopher and writer coined the phrase "genteel tradition", introducing it to a California audience in 1911. That address appears in this collection of nine essays touching on American idealism and materialism and American endeavor, sacred and profane.
The Power Of Culture
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Author : Richard Wightman Fox
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1993-04
The Power Of Culture written by Richard Wightman Fox and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-04 with History categories.
"We are in the midst of a dramatic shift in sensibility, and 'cultural' history is the rubric under which a massive doubting and refiguring of our most cherished historical assumptions is being conducted. Many historians are coming to suspect that the idea of culture has the power to restore order to the study of the past. Whatever its potency as an organizing theme, there is no doubt about the power of the term 'culture' to evoke and stand for the depth of the re-examination not taking place. At a time of deep intellectual disarray, 'culture' offers a provisional, nominalist version of coherence: whatever the fragmentation of knowledge, however centrifugal the spinning of the scholarly wheel, 'culture'—which (even etymologically) conveys a sense of safe nurture, warm growth, budding or ever-present wholeness—will shelter us. The PC buttons on historians' chests today stand not for 'politically correct' but 'positively cultural.'—from the Introduction More and more scholars are turning to cultural history in order to make sense of the American past. This volume brings together nine original essays by some leading practitioners in the field. The essays aim to exhibit the promise of a cultural approach to understanding the range of American experiences from the seventeenth century to the present. Expanding on the editors' pathbreaking The Culture of Consumption, the contributors to this volume argue for a cultural history that attends closely to language and textuality without losing sight of broad configurations of power that social and political history at its best has always stressed. The authors here freshly examine crucial topics in both private and public life. Taken together, the essays shed new light on the power of culture in the lives of Americans past and present.
The Works Of George Santayana Character And Opinion In The United States The Genteel Tradition At Bay Dewey S Naturalistic Metaphysics Philosophical Heresy
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Author : George Santayana
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1937
The Works Of George Santayana Character And Opinion In The United States The Genteel Tradition At Bay Dewey S Naturalistic Metaphysics Philosophical Heresy written by George Santayana and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1937 with categories.
The Genteel Tradition And The Sacred Rage
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Author : Robert Dawidoff
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
The Genteel Tradition And The Sacred Rage written by Robert Dawidoff and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with History categories.
Asking why many American intellectuals have had such difficulty accepting wholeheartedly the cultural dimensions of democracy, Robert Dawidoff examines their alienation and ambivalence, a tradition of detachment he identifies as "Tocquevillian." In the work of three towering American literary figures - Henry Adams, Henry James, and George Santayana -- Dawidoff explores fully this distancing and uneasy response to democratic culture. Linked together by common Harvard, Cambridge, and New England connections, and by an upper-class, Brahmin background, each of these three writers, Dawidoff argues, was at once self-critical and contemptuous of cultural democracy -- especially its indifference to them and what they represented. But their claims to detached observation of democratic culture must be viewed skeptically, Dawidoff warns, and borrowed with caution. An important contribution of the book is its integration of gay issues into American intellectual history. Viewing James's and Santayana's attitudes toward their homosexuality as affecting their views of American society, Dawidoff examines this significant and overlooked element in the American intellectual and cultural mix. Dawidoff also includes powerful new readings of Adams's Democracy and James's The Ambassadors and discusses Santayana's Americanist essays. In his foreward, Alan Trachtenberg notes the "taboo" that seems to have fallen over the word democracy. "It is rarely encountered anymore in humanistic studies," he says, " snubbed in favor of gender, class, race, region." This trend, he says, may be in part due to an unease about studying the culture in which we participate because the posture of the cutural critic implies a certain detachment. "The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage returns the question of democracy to centerstage," he concludes, "not as political theory alone but as cultural and personal experience." Originally published in 1992. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
After The Genteel Tradition
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Author : Malcolm Cowley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
After The Genteel Tradition written by Malcolm Cowley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with American literature categories.
The Genteel Tradition
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Author : Danforth Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
The Genteel Tradition written by Danforth Ross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with American literature categories.
Overheard In Seville 2008
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Santayana Edition
Release Date : 2008-10-15
Overheard In Seville 2008 written by and has been published by Santayana Edition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-15 with Philosophy categories.
An annual publication, Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society includes scholarly articles on George Santayana as well as announcements of publications and meetings pertaining to Santayana Scholarship.
Santayana And America Values Liberties Responsibility
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Author : Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-26
Santayana And America Values Liberties Responsibility written by Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with Philosophy categories.
George Santayana (1863–1952), a Spanish-American philosopher, is an influential personage on the cultural stage in English- and Spanish-speaking countries. His numerous books and papers on topics as varied as epistemology, ontology, aesthetics, ethics, anthropology, value theory, and American studies, along with his best-selling novel, his sophisticated poetry, and his famous autobiography, make him a vivid and profound source of reflection on the history of American and European thought, as well as a stimulus for future work. Santayana’s exceptionality was appreciated by William James and Josiah Royce, his most eminent colleagues in Harvard University’s Department of Philosophy, and has been discussed by such respected authors as John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, Charles Hartshorne, Eric Voegelin, Alfred Schutz, Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam, Arthur Danto, and Ferdinand Savater, among others. This book aims to understand Santayana by considering his often provocative views on America. Other scholars have reconstructed his thought at various times and in a variety of ways, but no one has yet considered Santayana’s approach toward America in a serious and profound way (at least not in the English language). This book attempts to convince the reader that the impartiality of Santayana’s philosophy, its transcendence of cultural limits and mental borders, makes it a living philosophy, and that this is the strongest aspect of Santayana’s thought.