The complete online text of Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy by George Santayana.

George Santayana (1863-1952), Spanish and American philosopher, developed a personal form of critical realism that was skeptical, materialistic, and humanistic. George Santayana was unique among American and European philosophers during his long lifetime...

George Santayana is one of the most notable, and paradoxical, figures in American intellectual life. He is, for example, a philosopher whose work combines naturalism and platonism; whose philosophy is highly literary, while his literary works are highly...

George Santayana is perhaps best known for the critique of what he termed the "genteel tradition" in American philosophy, along with his dramatic departure from Harvard University and emigration from the United States in 1912. Santayana believed that Ame...

In her challenging study of the Cartesian "origins" of the foundations of modern thought, Claudia Brodsky Lacour broaches the question of modernity in a whole new way. Her incisive reading of the Discours de la methode argues for a critical reassessment of the...

EVIL IN MODERN THOUGHT: AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. By Susan Neiman. Princeton: Princeton University, 2002. Pp. xiv + 358. $29.95 $18.95 In an early 2004 interview with Bill Moyers on "Now" (PBS), Susan Neiman related how she found herself as an...