Product Description: This little work contains the chief ideas gathered together for a course of lectures on the theory and history of aesthetics given at Harvard College from 1892 to 1895. The only originality I can claim is that which may result from the attempt to put together the scattered commonplaces of criticism into a system, under the inspiration of a naturalistic psychology...read more

Product Description: A HERMIT OF CARMEL SCENE.—A ravine amid the slopes of Mount Carmel. On one side a hermitage, on the other a rustic cross. The sun is about to set in the sea, which fills the background. HERMIT. Thou who wast tempted in the wilderness, Guard me this night, for there are snares in sleep That baffle watching...read more

Product Description: Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana, was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. 

Product Description: Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana, was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. 

Product Description: Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana, was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. 

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Product Description: Lucifer: A Theological Tragedy, by George Santayana, '86, is as remarkable for the high level of its thought and its poetical expression as for the magnitude of its plan. In the Book of Job we have the presentation of one aspect of man's struggle with the mystery of evil; in Paradise Lost we have another; in Faust still another...read more

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Product Description: Originally published in 1933, this book contains five philosophical essays by the famous philosopher and essayist George Santayana. The topics cover both older philosophy, such as those of Locke, as well as philosophy's relationship to newer discoveries, such as the theory of relativity...read more

Product Description: A good portrait of Locke would require an elaborate background. His is not a figure to stand statuesquely in a void: the pose might not seem grand enough for bronze or marble. Rather he should be painted in the manner of the Dutch masters, in a sunny interior, scrupulously furnished with all the implements of domestic comfort and philosophic enquiry: the Holy Bible open majestically before him, and beside it that other revelation—the terrestrial globe...read more

On vacation in Africa, Nebraskan Victoria Custer is swept back in time by Nu, a mighty hunter from the Niocene Age, and together they fight the treacherous beasts and brutal men of the Stone Age, forging a love to outlast the millennia. Reprint.

Product Description: This volume offers a selection of the notes in the margin written by George Santayana, transcribed from books in his personal library.

Product Description: George Santayana was a Spanish philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. He was educated in the United States and wrote in English. He is remembered for the quote "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Santayana was committed to a naturalist metaphysics, in which human cognition, cultural practices, and social institutions have evolved so as to harmonize with the conditions present in their environment...read more

Product Description: Jorge Santayana explora a fondo en este brillante ensayo el problema del valor filosofico de la literatura. En el analiza y compara tres grandes obras de la literatura occidental que estan saturadas de filosofia.El poema de Lucrecio De la naturaleza de las cosas, la Divina comedia de Dante y el Fausto de Goethe son los tres monumentos literarios seleccionados por Santayana...read more

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Product Description: This volume contains a collection of “soliloquies” written by George Santayana. After a term at the University of Berlin, the author spent his first holidays in England. These were the “great free days of his youth”, and it was there, in England, that he found something more “sober and just” that would be the inspiration for these pieces...read more

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