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The volumes of The Works of George Santayana are unmodernized, critical editions of George Santayana’s published and unpublished writings. 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 emendations) on which editorial decisions have been based. 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.

The book collection consists mainly of works that have grown around editing needs of the edition, including photocopies of original Santayana manuscripts and papers held by libraries around the country, such as the Houghton Library at Harvard University, the Nicholas Murray Butler Library at Columbia University, the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the Joseph Mark Lauinger Library at Georgetown University, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Scribner Archive at Princeton University, the Temple University Libaries, and the Rockefeller Archive Center. In addition to the photocopies of Santayana’s manuscripts and papers, the Santayana Collection includes books published by Santayana, books published about Sanatayana, translations of Santayana’s works, other philosophical reference books, copies of Santayana photographs, and original photographs donated by individuals taken of significant Santayana sites (such as his European homes). The Santayana Collection maintains an electronic database that includes scanned copies of Santayana’s books, articles, and letters. The database may be searched by topic or keywords. Archival collections, apart from the working materials generated by preparation of the edition, include the materials assembled by Santayana’s most recent biographer, John McCormick.

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