Santayana Edition
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Santayana Collections
About the Santayana Edition
The volumes of The Works of George Santayana are unmodernized, critical editions of George Santayana's published and unpublished writings. An "unmodernized" edition retains outdated and idiosyncratic punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and word division in order to reflect the full intent of the author as well as the initial texture of the work; a "critical" edition allows the exercise of editorial judgment in making corrections, changes, and choices among authoritative readings.
The goal of the editors is to produce texts that accurately represent Santayana's final intentions regarding his works, and to record all evidence (textual apparatus listing variants and emandations) on which editorial decisions have been based. Editorial judgments are based on an assessment of all available evidence manifest in Santayana's works, letters, annotations, and other authorial material. The editors determine the authority of all documents containing the text in question, establish the critical text on the most authoritative documents, record all textual data for appropriate documents, and account for any divergence, whether substantive or accidental, from the copy-text. When completed, this procedure enables scholars, using the information presented in the editorial apparatus, to recover readings of the documents used in preparing the text and to evaluate the editorial judgments made in establishing the critical text.
The Works of George Santayana is published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England, and is supported by The National Endowment for the Humanities, (NEH) a federal agency which supports the study of such fields as history, philosophy, literature, and languages. Additional funding has been provided by Corliss Lamont, Emil Ogden, and the Comite Conjunto Hispano-Norteamericano para la Cooperacion Cultural y Educativa.
