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The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy’ AND Character and Opinion in the United States
by George Santayana
edited by James Seaton
Yale, 240 pp., $16
The Highpriest of Pessimism Zur Rezeption Schopenhauers in den USA by Christa Buschendorf Universitätsverlag Winter, 336 pp., 42 euros
A hundred years ago the philosopher and aesthete George Santayana traveled to Berkeley to recuperate “among her immense forces,” the mountains, forests, and Pacific surf, from the arid flatlands of Harvard’s intellectual conformism.
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