Santayana the Philosopher Philosophy as a Form of Life [Hardcover]

I give this book my highest endorsement. Daniel Moreno is one of the best Santayana scholars in the world, and his insights into the Spanish heritage and influence on Santayana are notable and remarkable.?They provide a depth of understanding of Santayanas thought as well as persuasively enable English-speaking readers to understand what has been missed in much of American and English Santayana scholarship.?The translation by Charles Padr?n is excellent and provides the much-needed acumen of an American scholar with a broad understanding of Santayanas works.Daniel Moreno's Santayana the Philosopher: Philosophy as a Form of Life as translated by Charles Padr?n is an exciting contribution to English-language Santayana studies. Like the metaphorical bridge that Moreno sees Santayana's work forming between Europe and the United States, this translation can connect the resurgent conversations about Santayana on both sides of the Atlantic. In viewing Santayana as a philosopher, Moreno takes seriously Santayana's questioning of dominant modes of philosophizing and rightly sees the spiritual as essential to Santayana's naturalistic conception of philosophy. The book is readable and engaging, and it displays the thoughtful enthusiasm of a well-informed scholar and the confident perspective of one with a deep concern for the subject matter. It promises to invigorate Santayana scholarship and make it in truth more international.A major study of a major philosopher, elegantly translated from the Spanish.Santayana the Philosopher: Philosophy as a Form of Life highlights the far-ranging nuances of Santayanas philosophical system, while also discussing his ever-present concern for contemporary human affairs. Santayana understood the activity of philosophy in a Greek manner, as a form of life, but his interests always included the perennial philosophical questions and how they related to the present.Regarding Santayana it has been claimed that he lacks a system while contradictil/