Fish out of water
Robert Dawidoff, 4 February 1988
The Works of George Santayana. Vol. I: Persons and Places
edited by William Holzberger and Herman Saatkamp.
MIT, 761 pp., £24.95, March 1987,0 262 19238 1 Show More
edited by William Holzberger and Herman Saatkamp.
MIT, 761 pp., £24.95, March 1987,
George Santayana: A Biography
by John McCormick.
Knopf, 612 pp., $30, August 1988,0 394 51037 2 Show More
by John McCormick.
Knopf, 612 pp., $30, August 1988,
“... friendships, settled on the tone he was to take throughout his life. He stayed on to study with William James, Josiah Royce and others in that golden age of American academic philosophising. He distinguished himself in his studies – and, in his attitude towards them, from his teachers. He began to sound a characteristic note of joyous disdain for ordinary ... ”
