The Works of George Santayana

FAIN: RQ-230265-15

Trustees of Indiana University, Indianapolis (Indianapolis, IN 46202-3288)
Martin A. Coleman (Project Director: December 2014 to present)

Preparation for print and digital publication of American philosopher George Santayana’s Three Philosophical Poets (Volume 8), Winds of Doctrine (Volume 9), Scepticism and Animal Faith (Volume 8), and to begin work on Realms of Being (Volume 16). (36 months)

The Works of George Santayana consists of unmodernized, critical editions of philosopher George Santayana's (1863-1952) published and unpublished writings. The goal of the editors is to produce texts that accurately represent Santayana's final intentions regarding his works, and to record all evidence (in the textual apparatus listing variants and emendations) on which editorial decisions have been based. The Works of George Santayana is projected to consist of 37 books published in 20 volumes. The proposed project is to publish Volume VIII, Three Philosophical Poets; Volume IX, Winds of Doctrine; and Volume XIII, Scepticism and Animal Faith; and begin preparatory editorial work on Volume XVI, Realms of Being. The Works of George Santayana is published by The MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England).

Media Coverage

"Review of Reason in Art, Book Four of The Life of Reason" (Review)
Author(s): Jude P. Dougherty
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 12/28/2015
Abstract: Book Review
URL: http://https://www.jstor.org/stable/24636511

"Art as reasoning: Santayana’s synthetic approach" (Review)
Author(s): Giovanni Maddalena
Publication: Limbo: Boletín internacional de estudios sobre Santayana
Date: 3/28/2017
Abstract: Book Review
URL: http://https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=6296063

"Review of Reason in Science, Book Five of The Life of Reason, Volume VII of The Works of George Santayana" (Review)
Author(s): Matthew C. Flamm
Publication: Journal of the History of Philosophy
Date: 10/4/2017
Abstract: Book Review
URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/article/672452

"Review of Reason in Science, Book Five of The Life of Reason, Volume VII of The Works of George Santayana" (Review)
Author(s): Jude P. Dougherty
Publication: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 3/28/2017
Abstract: Book Review
URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/44806968

“A return to humility and common sense: Santayana’s message to our current age” (Review)
Author(s): Jacquelyn Ann K.
Publication: Limbo: Boletín internacional de estudios sobre Santayana
Date: 3/28/2017
Abstract: Book Review
URL: http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=6296064

"Los poetas filosóficos de Santayana" (Review)
Author(s): Daniel Moreno
Publication: Quimera: Revista de Literatura.
Date: 3/28/2020
Abstract: Book Review
URL: http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7449619

“Santayana’s Hermeneutics of Poetry and Philosophy.” (Review)
Author(s): Leonarda Vaiana
Publication: Limbo: Boletín internacional de estudios sobre Santayana
Date: 3/28/2020
Abstract: Book Review
URL: http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7710890

"Review of George Santayana, Three Philosophical Poets – Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe" (Review)
Author(s): Daniel Pinkas
Publication: European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy [Online]
Date: 3/28/2020
Abstract: Book Review
URL: http://journals.openedition.org/ejpap/2217

"Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by George Santayana (review)" (Review)
Author(s): Daniel DiMassa
Publication: Goethe Yearbook
Date: 3/28/2021
Abstract: Book Review
URL: http://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2021.0029

Associated Products

The Works of George Santayana: Book 4, Volume VII, The Life of Reason: Reason in Art (Book)
Title: The Works of George Santayana: Book 4, Volume VII, The Life of Reason: Reason in Art
Author: George Santayana
Editor: Martin A. Coleman, Director, Editor, and Volume Editor
Editor: Marianne S. Wokeck, Senior Editor and Volume Editor
Abstract: Santayana’s Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, is a work of modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the development of the human capacity for appreciating and cultivating the ideal. It is a capacity he exhibits as he articulates a continuity running through animal impulse, practical intelligence, and ideal harmony in reason, society, art, religion, and science. The complete work is a vision of human life lived sanely. In this fourth book, Santayana writes that art is perfectly native to human endeavor; it is the paradigm of all productive activity. Any worthwhile work of art creates an organic whole, and the whole appeals to many facets of one’s nature; beauty brings these many feelings and powers into harmony. The benefits of a cultivated artistic taste contribute to the further growth and harmonization of the self in all its worthwhile activities. Art, or “the remodeling of nature by reason,” is, according to Santayana, the most generic form of rational activity; hence the life of reason falls within its domain. The conduct of the life of reason is the supreme art. This critical edition, volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, includes notes, textual commentary, lists of variants and emendations, an index, and other tools useful to Santayana scholars. The other four books of the volume are Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Religion, and Reason in Science.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/title/reason-in-art/oclc/930927696
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/life-reason-or-phases-human-progress-0
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Access Model: Book
Publisher: Cambridge, MA and London, England: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780262029605
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Santayana Edition Bibliography Database (Web Resource)
Title: Santayana Edition Bibliography Database
Author: Kellie Dawson
Author: Young Change
Author: Kristine Frost
Author: Daniel Moreno
Author: Herman Saatkamp
Author: John Jones
Author: Ali Zimmerman
Abstract: The Santayana Edition Bibliography Database, online annotated bibliography, provides information on primary works or secondary sources about George Santayana. This is the digital descendant of George Santayana: A Bibliographic Checklist, 1880–1980, by Herman J. Saatkamp and John Jones (Philosophy Documentation Center, 1982), and the “Bibliographic Checklist Update” that appears annually in Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society. It is updated continually as new works appear or are located.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: https://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/aib/
Primary URL Description: The Santayana Edition Bibliography Database
Secondary URL: http://santayana.iupui.edu/
Secondary URL Description: The Santayana Edition website hosts The Santayana Edition Bibliography Database.

"Living Sanely with Imaginative Sympathy” (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: "Living Sanely with Imaginative Sympathy”
Author: Martin A. Coleman
Abstract: Daniel Moreno in his book _Santayana the Philosopher: Philosophy as a Form of Life" (2007/2015) demonstrates how George Santayana brought together European and American intellectual traditions. His approach to Santayana is what Santayana would call literary psychology or "the art of imagining how [others] feel and think." This is the use of imaginative sympathy to grasp the perspective of another, and it makes possible the bridging of the gap between different centers of consciousness. Moreno's method demonstrates how the critical edition of _The Works of George Santayana_ can be used to bridge traditions in different cultures and the distance in time between Santayana and the present day, which is what young scholars such as Michael Brodrick and Jessica Wahman do in their new books inspired by Santayana.
Date: 06/28/2016
Primary URL: http://nyork.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha107502_27_2.htm
Primary URL Description: Announcement for the event
Conference Name: "Santayana or Philosophy as a Way of Life," Instituto Cervantes, New York, NY, USA

The Sense of Beauty (Web Resource)
Title: The Sense of Beauty
Author: George Santayana
Abstract: A digital version of the critically edited text of Santayana's seminal 1896 work on aesthetics. Because it is critically edited it is superior to the texts available from other internet sites.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/sant/the-sense-of-beauty/
Primary URL Description: Digital version of the critically edited The Sense of Beauty
Secondary URL: http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/sant/text/
Secondary URL Description: Webpage with link to the text

Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (Web Resource)
Title: Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
Author: George Santayana
Abstract: A digital version of the critically edited collection of essays, entitled Interpretations of Poetry and Religion, that first takes up topics Santayana continued to explore throughout his career. Published in 1900, the book already exhibited Santayana's lifelong concerns with consciousness and its interpretation of material existence and the resulting poetic and religious expressions of human experience. Because it is critically edited, this text is superior to other electronic versions available on the internet, which contain typographical and editorial errors that detract from the author's original intention.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/sant/interpretations-of-poetry-and-religion-2/
Primary URL Description: Digital version of the critically edited Interpretations of Poetry and Religion, by George Santayana
Secondary URL: http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/sant/text/
Secondary URL Description: Webpage with link to the text

Hasting's Aesthetics Lectures Notebook (Web Resource)
Title: Hasting's Aesthetics Lectures Notebook
Author: Horatius Bonar Hastings
Abstract: When George Santayana wrote The Sense of Beauty, he had the benefit of consulting notes taken by a former student who had attended Santayana aesthetics lectures. Horatius Bonar Hastings, who graduated from Harvard University with an A.M. in 1893, was a student in Santayana’s 1892–93 aesthetics class. Santayana wrote to Hastings: “Mr. Henshaw showed me yesterday the very careful and full notes you took in Phil. 8. Might I borrow them long enough to have them copied? They will be very useful to me as they are much more full than the brief headings from which I lectured. I am thinking of publishing a little book based on these discussions, so that your notes will be invaluable to me” (“To Horatius Bonar Hastings, 14 April 1893”, LGS, 1:127). The notes are presented here electronically in both facsimile and transcribed formats.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/sant/hastings-aesthetics-lectures-notebook/
Primary URL Description: Facsimile and transcribed digital versions of student notes from Santayana's course on aesthetics (1892–93)
Secondary URL: http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/sant/a-brief-history-of-the-hastings-aesthetics-notes/
Secondary URL Description: A brief history of the Hastings aesthetics notes

Locating the Unlocated (Blog Post)
Title: Locating the Unlocated
Author: Adele Willman
Abstract: An account of finding an unpublished version of a poem by George Santayana while researching letters for an upcoming critical edition of Santayana's Three Philosophical Poets
Date: 04/29/2016
Primary URL: http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/sant/2016/04/29/locating-the-unlocated/
Primary URL Description: Blog post about critical editing and research
Blog Title: Locating the Unlocated
Website: The Santayana Edition

Treasures from the Vault: George Santayana’s Doctoral Gown (Blog Post)
Title: Treasures from the Vault: George Santayana’s Doctoral Gown
Author: Kristin Lee
Abstract: A history of Santayana's academic gown, which was donated to the Santayana Edition
Date: 04/11/2016
Primary URL: http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/sant/2016/04/11/treasures-from-the-vault-george-santayanas-doctoral-gown/
Primary URL Description: History of Santayana's academic gown
Blog Title: Treasures from the Vault: George Santayana’s Doctoral Gown
Website: The Santayana Edition

A Note about a Letter (and Its Notes) (Blog Post)
Title: A Note about a Letter (and Its Notes)
Author: Austen Hurt
Abstract: Account of discovering a discrepancy in dating a letter written by Santayana
Date: 11/04/2015
Primary URL: http://www.iupui.edu/~santedit/sant/2015/11/06/a-note-about-a-letter-and-its-notes/
Primary URL Description: Blog post about critical editing and research
Blog Title: A Note about a Letter (and Its Notes)
Website: The Santayana Edition

The Works of George Santayana, Volume VII, Book Five, The Life of Reason or the Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Science (Book)
Title: The Works of George Santayana, Volume VII, Book Five, The Life of Reason or the Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Science
Author: George Santayana
Editor: Herman J. Saatkamp, Founding and Consulting Series Editor
Editor: Marianne S. Wokeck, Series Editor and Volume Editor
Editor: Martin A. Coleman, Associate Series Editor and Volume Editor
Editor: James A. Gouinlock, Volume Introduction
Editor: Kristine W. Frost, Associate Series Editor
Editor: Kellie Dawson, Assistant Series Editor
Editor: Steven A. Miller, Assistant Series Editor
Editor: Johanna E. Resler, Assistant Series Editor
Editor: David E. Spiech, Textual Series Editor
Editor: Jonathan R. Eller, Consulting Textual Series Editor
Editor: William G. Holzberger, Consulting Textual Series Editor
Editor: Paul Nagy, Consulting Series Editor
Abstract: The final book in Santayana’s work of philosophical naturalism argues that science crowns the life of reason.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/life-of-reason-or-the-phases-of-human-progress-reason-in-science/oclc/946160450&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/search/mitpress_search/9780262035286
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Access Model: Book
Publisher: Cambridge, MA and London, England: The MIT Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780262035286
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Volume VIII of The Works of George Santayana, Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe (Book)
Title: Volume VIII of The Works of George Santayana, Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe
Author: George Santayana
Editor: Marianne S. Wokeck, Senior Editor
Editor: Martin A. Coleman, Editor
Editor: Kristine W. Frost, Associate Editor
Editor: David E. Spiech, Volume Editor, Assistant Editor, and Textual Editor
Editor: Kellie Dawson, Volume Editor and Assistant Editor
Editor: Steven A. Miller, Assistant Editor
Abstract: Volume VIII in the critical edition of The Works of George Santayana, includes notes, textual commentary, lists of variants and emendations, an index, and other tools useful to Santayana scholars.This volume—described by Santayana as a “piece of literary criticism, together with a first broad lesson in the history of philosophy”—introduces Santayana's thought in the context of a European poetic tradition that demonstrates his broad conception of philosophy. Rejecting both the Platonic opposition of philosophy and poetry and more recent attempts to reduce philosophy to science, Santayana argues that philosophy and poetry at their best are united in articulating a comprehensive vision of the world that permits honest contemplation of the universe. He considers the ideal visions of three artists: Lucretius's naturalism provides a total perspective on the physical world but renders experience monotonous; Dante's supernaturalism provides a total perspective on experience but subordinates nature to morality; Goethe's romanticism provides a dramatic perspective on nature and experience but lacks totality. Santayana sees each as the best in his own way, though none is best in all ways; and he speculates that the ideal poet would integrate the gifts and insights of all three, resulting in “rational art,” of which philosophical poetry is a prime example.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/title/three-philosophical-poets-lucretius-dante-and-goethe/oclc/1100427672&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/three-philosophical-poets-lucretius-dante-and-goethe-critical-edition-volume-8
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Access Model: Book
Publisher: Cambridge, MA and London, England: The MIT Press
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780262043359
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Texts - George Santayana (Web Resource)
Title: Texts - George Santayana
Author: George Santayana
Abstract: Books by George Santayana and archival materials including lecture notes, letters, and an unpublished translations.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://santedit.sitehost.iu.edu/text/
Primary URL Description: A listing of links to texts by George Santayana

Digital Santayana (Web Resource)
Title: Digital Santayana
Author: George Santayana
Abstract: Archival materials including note, letters, and an unpublished translation by George Santayana.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://digitalsantayana.iupui.edu/index.html
Primary URL Description: This is the homepage for the Digital Santayana collection of texts by George Santayana

The Works of George Santayana: Volume IX, The Winds of Doctrine (Book)
Title: The Works of George Santayana: Volume IX, The Winds of Doctrine
Author: George Santayana
Editor: David E. Spiech
Editor: Martin A. Coleman
Editor: Faedra Lazar Weiss
Abstract: 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 departure for Europe. Santayana had felt stifled at Harvard for some time, and his long-contemplated resignation from academia released him from previous obligations and allowed him a new freedom to think and write. Much later, Santayana remarked on the significance of that choice to step away: "In Winds of Doctrine and my subsequent books, a reader of my earlier writings may notice a certain change of climate. . . . It was not my technical philosophy that was principally affected, but rather the meaning and status of philosophy for my inner man." An insightful document of American intellectual history, supplemented with annotations and rich textual commentary, Winds of Doctrine is a vital and engaging survey of the religious, political, philosophical, and literary trends of the twentieth century.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://search.worldcat.org/title/9992567324
Primary URL Description: WorldCat
Secondary URL: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15336.001.0001
Secondary URL Description: The MIT Press
Access Model: open access book & PDF chapters
Publisher: The MIT Press
Type: Edited Volume
Type: Scholarly Edition
ISBN: 9780262377324
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

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