Author photo. Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. (wikipedia.org)

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. (wikipedia.org)

George Santayana (1863–1952)

Author of The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory

Includes the names: G Santayana, Gerge Santayana, Geoge Santayana, George Santayana, Geroge Santayana, George Santayana, George Santayyana, George S Santayana, et. al. George Santayana, Santayana; Irwin Edman ed. ... (see complete list), Professor George Santayana, Джордж Сантаяна, George Santayana; John Lachs (Ed. )

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Works by George Santayana

The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory 412 copies, 1 review
The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel 275 copies, 5 reviews
Scepticism and Animal Faith 214 copies
Persons and places 191 copies
The Life of Reason 184 copies
Three Philosophical Poets 144 copies, 1 review
The Philosophy of Santayana 89 copies, 1 review
Character and Opinion in the United States 79 copies
The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in… 64 copies
Interpretations of poetry and religion 60 copies
Reason in Common Sense 41 copies, 1 review
Reason in Art 40 copies, 2 reviews
Reason in Society 39 copies
Dominations and powers : reflections on liberty, society, and government 39 copies

Reason in Religion 38 copies

Dialogues in Limbo 38 copies

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies 36 copies

Persons And Places: Fragments of Autobiography 36 copies

The Birth of Reason and Other Essays 35 copies

The middle span 34 copies

Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy 32 copies

Reason in Science 29 copies

The Philosophy of George Santayana 28 copies

The idea of Christ in the Gospels; or, God in man, a critical essay 25 copies

Winds of Doctrine and Platonism and the Spiritual Life 23 copies

Realms of being 22 copies

Winds of doctrine; studies in contemporary opinion 21 copies, 1 review

Poems 21 copies

My host the world 17 copies

The Wisdom of George Santayana 17 copies

Selected critical writings of George Santayana 16 copies

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Also by George Santayana

The age of analysis : 20th century philosophers (Contributor) 341 copies
Critical Theory Since Plato (Contributor, some editions) 341 copies
The Portable Conservative Reader (Contributor) 186 copies
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (Contributor) 89 copies, 1 review
Twentieth Century American Poetry (Contributor) 77 copies, 1 review
World War I and America: Told by the Americans Who Lived It (The Library… (Contributor) 60 copies, 1 review
American Sonnets: An Anthology (Contributor) 52 copies
Leopardi: A Study in Solitude (Foreword, some editions) 41 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent… (Contributor) 28 copies
Classic Essays in English (Contributor) 23 copies
Great companions : critical memoirs of some famous friends (Contributor) 21 copies
Modern Essays (Contributor) 21 copies

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Canonical name

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Santayana y Borrás, Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de

Other names

Date of birth

1863-12-16

Date of death

1952-12-26

Burial location

Gender

male

Nationality

Spain

Country (for map)

Birthplace

Madrid, Spain

Place of death

Rome, Italy

Cause of death

Places of residence

Avila, Spain

Madrid, Spain

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Rome, Italy

Education

Boston Latin School

Harvard University (BA ∙ PhD)

University of Berlin

University of Cambridge (King's College)

Occupations

Relationships

James, William (teacher)

Royce, Josiah (teacher)

Eliot, T. S. (student)

Frost, Robert (student)

Stein, Gertrude (student)

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Organizations

Harvard Lampoon

Harvard Monthly (founding member)

Harvard Philosophical Club (president)

Hasty Pudding Club

Awards and honors

Phi Beta Kappa

Walker Fellowship

Royal Society of Literature Benson Meda (1928)

Columbia University Butler Gold Medal (1945)

Honorary degree, University of Wisconsin

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Disambiguation notice

Links

Wikipedia

The Santayana Edition (Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis)

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia of World Biography (via Encyclopedia.com)

Bio and poems (Poetry Foundation)

Poems online (Poem Hunter)

Intellectual Ambition online

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