Abstract

This is one of the finest studies of the categories of being and the strongest defense of Santayana's system to appear. It is a significant contribution to the advancement of American philosophy and will do much to hasten the recognition of Santayana as a great American philosopher. It comes a year after John McCormick's massive biography which it complements beautifully because it is based primarily on the metaphysical system. It comes after Persons and Places in The Works, the critical edition from MIT Press, which will shortly be augmented by The Sense of Beauty and Poetry and Religion. Coupled with Overheard in Seville, the bulletin of the Santayana Society, does it not seem evident that a generation after his death in Rome that Santayana is no longer unread and unappreciated?