Henry Samuel Levinson is professor and head of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

This work will cause many to reconsider the traditional rendering of Santayana and of much of the pragmatic movement. . . . In terms of highlighting the distinctive contributions of Santayana to American pragmatism, Levinson's account is a singular contribution to scholarship.-- Herman Saatkamp, Jr., general editor, The Works of George Santayana|""Provocative, timely, and beautifully wrought.""-- Journal of Religion|""This splendid book is not only a major reinterpretation of Santayana, it is also a powerful challenge to our assumptions about American pragmatism. Henceforth, anyone who neglects Santayana when telling the story of pragmatism, anyone who accepts Hook's anti-religious arguments and tragic vision as definitive of pragmatic naturalism, will have to answer to Levinson. It is surely one of the most important books on a single figure to have been written by a specialist in religious studies for a long time.""-- Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University|""Fills a glaring gap in Romantic criticism, with the first full-length treatment of that common Romantic fact, or fashion, the self-conscious fragment.""-- Keats-Shelley Journal

Henry Samuel Levinson is professor and head of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

This work will cause many to reconsider the traditional rendering of Santayana and of much of the pragmatic movement. . . . In terms of highlighting the distinctive contributions of Santayana to American pragmatism, Levinson's account is a singular contribution to scholarship.-- Herman Saatkamp, Jr., general editor, The Works of George Santayana|""Provocative, timely, and beautifully wrought.""-- Journal of Religion|""This splendid book is not only a major reinterpretation of Santayana, it is also a powerful challenge to our assumptions about American pragmatism. Henceforth, anyone who neglects Santayana when telling the story of pragmatism, anyone who accepts Hook's anti-religious arguments and tragic vision as definitive of pragmatic naturalism, will have to answer to Levinson. It is surely one of the most important books on a single figure to have been written by a specialist in religious studies for a long time.""-- Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University|""Fills a glaring gap in Romantic criticism, with the first full-length treatment of that common Romantic fact, or fashion, the self-conscious fragment.""-- Keats-Shelley Journal

Henry Samuel Levinson is professor and head of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

This work will cause many to reconsider the traditional rendering of Santayana and of much of the pragmatic movement. . . . In terms of highlighting the distinctive contributions of Santayana to American pragmatism, Levinson's account is a singular contribution to scholarship.-- Herman Saatkamp, Jr., general editor, The Works of George Santayana|""Provocative, timely, and beautifully wrought.""-- Journal of Religion|""This splendid book is not only a major reinterpretation of Santayana, it is also a powerful challenge to our assumptions about American pragmatism. Henceforth, anyone who neglects Santayana when telling the story of pragmatism, anyone who accepts Hook's anti-religious arguments and tragic vision as definitive of pragmatic naturalism, will have to answer to Levinson. It is surely one of the most important books on a single figure to have been written by a specialist in religious studies for a long time.""-- Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University|""Fills a glaring gap in Romantic criticism, with the first full-length treatment of that common Romantic fact, or fashion, the self-conscious fragment.""-- Keats-Shelley Journal