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9780803292512

The Genteel Tradition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780803292512

  • ISBN10:

    0803292511

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-05-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

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Summary

George Santayana probably did more than anyone except Alexis de Tocqueville to shape the critical view of American culture. The great philosopher and writer coined the phrase "genteel tradition," introducing it to a California audience in 1911. The phrase caught fire, giving a name to the culture of the republic. Santayana's address appears in this collection of influential essays about the country he lived in from 1872 to 1912. Because he remained European in spirit, the Spaniard brought a sharp detachment to his observations. He points out the American split between thought and action, theory and practice, the traditional and the modern, the arts and business, the high-brow and the popular. He also examines the excessive moralism in national life, which baffles Europeans. These nine essays touch on American idealism and materialism and American endeavor, sacred and profane.

Author Biography

Also the editor of Jefferson’s Literary Commonplace Book, Douglas L. Wilson is Lawrence Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Knox College. Robert Dawidoff, a professor of history at Claremont Graduate School, is the author of The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage: High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, and Santayana.

Table of Contents

Preface xxiii
Introductory 1(25)
Young Sammy's First Wild Oats (1900)
26(11)
The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911)
37(28)
Shakespeare: Made in America (1915)
65(7)
Genteel American Poetry (1915)
72(5)
The Moral Background (1920)
77(22)
Philosophical Opinion in America (1918)
99(18)
Materialism and Idealism in America (1919)
117(14)
Marginal Notes on Civilization in the United States (1922)
131(22)
The Genteel Tradition at Bay (1931)
153(46)
Index 199

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