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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kirby-Smith, H. T. (Henry Tompkins), 1938- Philosophical novelist. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1997 (OCoLC)645860753 |
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| Named Person: | George Santayana; George Santayana |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
H T Kirby-Smith |
| ISBN: | 0809321130 9780809321131 |
| OCLC Number: | 35450510 |
| Description: | xii, 208 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction: A Question of Style -- 2. Some Sources of Santayana's Philosophy -- 3. Spinoza -- 4. The Realm of Essence -- 5. The Realm of Matter -- 6. Detachment from Persons and Places and Things -- 7. In Search of Substance -- 8. The Realm of Spirit: The Last Puritan -- 9. Philosophy into Fiction -- 10. Santayana and His Critics -- App. An Unpublished Letter. |
| Responsibility: | H.T. Kirby-Smith. |
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Abstract:
In the preface to the second edition of The Last Puritan, George Santayana wrote that he saw this "memoir in the form of a novel" as an exemplification of his own spirit. H. T. Kirby-Smith uses Santayana's 1936 novel The Last Puritan as both an occasion and a means for bringing into focus the complex relations between Santayana's life, his personality, and his philosophy.
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