Life of Reason in an Age of Terrorism

Charles Padrón, Ph.D. (2000), Vanderbilt University, is a scholar and writer in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. He has recently translated Daniel Moreno’s Santayana filósofo. La filosofía como forma de vida (Bucknell, 2015).Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński, PhD (1998), habilitation (2014) at University of Wrocław, teaches philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Opole University, Poland, and co-founded the Berlin Practical Philosophy International Forum, e.V. He is the author and editor of numerous books, and also blogs about Santayana’s philosophy.

• Editors’ IntroductionPreface: Justice and SorrowJohn LachsAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsPart 1: Terrorism and Its Discontents1 Forgetting and Remembering History: Memory and Self IdentityJaquelyn Ann Kegley2 The Life of Reason and Terrorism: StrategiesHerman J. Saatkamp, Jr.3 Managing Necessity: Santayana on Forms of Power and the Human ConditionKatarzyna Kremplewska4 Santayanan Reason, Terror and Terrorism, and the Everyday WorldCharles Padrón5 Assassination Nation: The Drone as Thanatological DispositifEduardo Mendieta6 Santayana and the (Postmodern) Spirit of TerrorismLuka Nikolić Part 2: The Circumscribing Political Context7 Santayana, Self-Knowledge and the Limits of PoliticsTill Kinzel8 Santayana on AmericanismDaniel Moreno9 Liberalism and the Vertigo of Spirit: Santayana’s Political TheodicyMatthew Caleb Flamm10 Dewey, Santayana, and ‘Ndrangheta: Understanding a Complex PhenomenonMatteo Santarelli11 “A Happy Snow-Flake Dancing in the Flaw”: Reflections on Santayanan Alternatives and Surviving a New Dark AgeNóra HorváthPart 3: Barbarism, Fanaticism, Madness, and Egotism12 Barbarism Begins at Home: Santayana and Barbarism in Art and LifeGiuseppe Patella13 Egotism, Violence and the Devil: On Santayana’s Use of the Concept of EgotismDaniel Pinkas14 A Religion without Fanaticism: Little Lessons of Wisdom from SantayanaJosé Beltrán Llavador15 Santayana on Pluralism, Relativism and RationalityAndrés Tutor16 Santayana’s Idea of Madness and Normal Madness in a Troubled AgeCayetano Estébanez17 Santayana’s Philosophy of Education against Fanaticism and BarbarityKrzysztof Piotr SkowrońskiIndex