Imagination, Innocence and Postmodernism
Maybe from all your mental somersaults will come a system that will satisfy you in the realm of pure signs, but it will be a…
George Santayana
A Manifesto of Neo-Romanticism
He is thinking: “See how God writes straigh on crooked lines.”1 What realistic form can a manifesto of neo-romanticism take in a positivistic age? How…
Quote of the Week: George Santayana, “The Sense of Beauty; being The Outlines of Æsthetic Theory”
“§14. The function of reproduction carries with it not only direct modifications of the body and mind, but a whole set of social institutions, for…
Quote of the Week: George Santayana, “Skepticism and Animal Faith”
“It is true that, quite apart from living discourse, a set of axioms and postulates, as simple as we like, may be posited in the…