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Today, I’m providing a casual look at the process of emending a work. Emending is the process of making correcting changes to a work. (As opposed to amending which is adding to or altering a work in order to improve its contents). One significant difference is that emending isn’t designed to change the context or …

The 2014 issue of Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society now is available here for online reading and downloading.  

Reason in Religion Published The critical edition of Reason in Religion, Book 3 of The Life of Reason, Volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, is now available from The MIT Press. The book features an introduction by James Gouinlock and a scholarly apparatus including a list of variations found in the posthumously published …

New Publications in Santayana Scholarship Two recently published books may be of interest to you:

George Santayana Society 27 Feb 2014 Meeting The George Santayana Society will hold an additional meeting in 2014 in conjunction with the February meetings of the American Philosophical Association (Central Division) at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Illinois. 9:00–11:00 AM Thursday 27 February 2014 Speakers: William Gahan Department of English Rockford University “Santayana on …

George Santayana Society 28 Dec 2013 Annual Meeting The George Santayana Society’s annual meeting will be held in conjunction with the December meetings of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division) at the Marriott Baltimore Waterfront in Baltimore, Maryland. Topic: Santayana’s Interpreters Time: 9:00–11:00 AM Saturday 28 December 2013 Speakers: Beth Eddy Worcester Polytechnic Institute “Henry …

Overheard in Seville (No. 31, 2013) Now Available Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the George Santayana Society (No. 31, Fall 2013) is available for reading and download at the Society webpage and also here.

Reason in Society Published The critical edition of Reason in Society, Book 2 of The Life of Reason, Volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, is now available from The MIT Press. The book features an introduction by James Gouinlock and a scholarly apparatus including a list of variations found in the posthumously published …

Santayana Seminar Series – 25 April 13 – Katarzyna Kremplewska The Santayana Seminar Series presents Katarzyna Kremplewska Graduate School for Social Research Polish Academy of Sciences Mask and Thought: The Conception of “the Self” in Santayana’s Philosophy

New Book on Santayana A new book from Giuseppe Patella (Università di Roma–Tor Vergata) entitled Filosofia del Viaggio (Philosophy of Travel) presents for the first time in Italian Santayana’s early essay “The Philosophy of Travel” along with an essay by Patella on what might be called Santayana’s Travelling Philosophy. The book appears on the 150th …