The Palgrave Companion to George Santayanas Scepticism and Animal Faith [Hardcover]

The first of its kind, this project is a collection of critical and interpretive essays on George Santayanas seminal work in American philosophy, Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923), 100 years after its first edition. The reader will be guided through the intricacies of Scepticism and Animal Faith by expert scholars. This book is a companion to Scepticism and Animal Faith for both first-time readers and readers intimately familiar with this work. 

1. Introduction; Martin Coleman and Glenn Tiller.- I. Scepticism and Animal Faith.- 2. Santayana: Philosopher for the Twenty-First Century; Herman J. Saatkamp Jr.- 3. The Last Sceptic: Santayana, Descartes, and the External World; Douglas McDermid.- 4. Laying Siege to the Truth: Santayanas Discourse on Method; Diana B. Heney.- 5. Scepticism, Anti-scepticism, and Santayanas Singularity; Daniel Pinkas.- 6. Knowledge as a Leap of Faith; Jessica Wahman.- 7. Animal Faith and Its Object; John J. Stuhr.- 8. Natural Knowledge and Transcendental Criticism in Scepticism and Animal Faith; Paul Forster.- 9. Santayanas Naturalism at the Junction of Epistemology and Ontology; ?ngel M. Faerna.- 10. Reconstruction from Ultimate Scepticism; Angus Kerr-Lawson.- II. Ontology and Spirit.- 11. The Centrality of the Imagination in Scepticism and Animal Faith; Richard Marc Rubin.- 12. Spiritual Exercises and Animal Faith; Martin A. Coleman.- 13. The Cries of Spirit: Santayana in Dialogue with Andrey Platonov; Matthew Caleb Flamm.- 14. Fumbling Towards the Animal in Animal Faith; Charles Padr?n.- 15. A Tension at the Center of Santayanas Philosophy; Michael Hodges.- 16. Truth and Ontology; Glenn ls'