Winds of Doctrine, Critical Edition, Volume 9: Studies in Contemporary Opinion Santayana George
A critical edition of a classic work by the renowned philosopher George Santayana evaluating key movements in American intellectual history.Winds of Doctrine presents six essays by the internationally…
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A critical edition of a classic work by the renowned philosopher George Santayana evaluating key movements in American intellectual history.Winds of Doctrine presents six essays by the internationally recognized critic and philosopher George Santayana. The essays, edited by David E. Spiech, Martin A. Coleman, and Faedra Lazar Weiss, and introduced by Paul Forster, address the broad sweep of intellectual trends--or, as the title suggests, the ever-changing winds of thought--of the Spanish-born American thinker's time. The topics range from the secularization of American culture to the rise of religious modernism to the "genteel tradition" in American philosophy, the subject of Santayana's final lecture in America and perhaps his best known essay.The original Winds of Doctrine, published in 1913, was the first book published after Santayana's 1912