Persons and Places, critical edition - Couverture rigide

Santayana, George

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262192381 ISBN 13 : 9780262192385

Editeur : Bradford Books, 1987

Synopsis

Persons and Places inaugurates a new definitive edition of Santayana's works that aims to come as close to his final intentions as possible.

Philosopher, poet, critic of culture and literature, and best-selling novelist, George Santayana was unquestionably one of the great men of letters of our time. Persons and Places inaugurates a new definitive edition of Santayana's works that aims to come as close to his final intentions as possible. This first volume includes three books - Persons and Places, The Middle Span, and My Host the World - covering Santayana's youth, education, and teaching in Boston and Cambridge, his travels abroad, and ending shortly before his death in Rome in the early 1950s.Persons and Places is the first unexpurgated version of Santayana's autobiography. Substantially different from any previously published versions of Santayana's work, it restores 718 marginal headings and significant passages that have been omitted in the past, including lengthy sections on Spinoza, John Russell, Lionel Johnson, and members of Santayana's American family. All of this material was a part of Santayana's manuscript and was deleted from earlier publications for a variety of reasons, including his wish that portions be published only after his death, publishers' sensitivity about potential lawsuits, printing and production convenience, and a general desire to "soften" some of Santayana's remarks.

Physically, Persons and Places differs from other editions as well. Along with the restoration of marginal headings, which provide valuable information and often an indication of the author's tone, it includes Santayana's British spelling and punctuation as well as his idiosyncratic use of certain punctuation, and numerous photographs. Richard Lyon's Introduction is a significant contribution to American scholarship that not only explores Santayana's life and work but also enables us to understand the literary place of Persons and Places. The editorial apparatus includes a variants list, emendations list, notes to the text, discussions of adopted texts, and a section identifying persons mentioned in the autobiography. The Santayana edition, with over 20 volumes planned in all, was initiated by members of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

George Santayana (1863–1952) was a philosopher, poet, critic, and novelist. The MIT Press has published The Letters of George Santayana in eight books and the five books of The Life of Reason.

William G. Holzberger is Professor of English Emeritus at Bucknell University.

Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr., is Head of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at Texas A&M University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bradford Books
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262192381
• ISBN 13: 9780262192385
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 848
• Éditeur: Holzberger William G., Saatkamp Jr. Herman J.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible