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The Battalion
Thursday, January 26,1989
Dean publishes literary criticism
By Andrea Warrenburg
REPORTER
A project of literary significance
has found its home in the Texas
A&M Department of Philosophy
and Humanities.
“The Works of George Santaya
na,” a 20-volume critical edition of
the writings of the American philo
sopher, is being spearheaded by de
partment head Dr. Herman J. Saat-
kamp.
Santayana was born in Spain but is
considered an American philo
sopher and author. He was educated
in the United States and taught for
more than 20 years at Harvard Uni
versity, spanning what is called “The
Golden Age of American Philoso
phy.”
Santayana’s writings range from
philosophy and literary criticisms to
poetry. He was especially interested
in American studies, English and
American literature and the history
of philosophy.
“His comments on America had a
major influence on the way the peo
ple who came after him looked at
our literary production,” Donna
Hanna-Calvert, associate editor of
the Santayana Edition said.
Saatkamp said, “Santayana is a
philosophical naturalist, who holds
that all explanatory accounts of the
world rest with the natural sciences.”
Saatkamp, general editor of the
Edition, graduated in 1964 with a
bachelor’s degree in philosophy
from Carson-Newman College and
received his doctorate from Vander
bilt University in 1972.
In 1976 he was asked to coordi
nate an unmodernized and critical
edition of Santayana’s writings. An
unmodernized edition keeps out
dated punctuation, spelling, capitali
zation and word division in order to
capture the author’s full intent. A
critical edition allows editorial
judgment in corrections and
changes.
The editors’ goal is to produce
books that represent Santayana’s fi
nal literary intentions. They locate
the original manuscripts, if available,
and go from there.
The bulk of Santayana’s unpub
lished material is in the libraries of
Columbia University, Harvard Uni
versity, the Univeristy of Texas and
the University of Virginia. Extensive
research has located material in
Spain, England, Canada, Italy and
the United States.
“Often, the First published edition
of his works are wrong and the edi
tions that follow simply repeat the
inaccuracies,” Calvert said. “For ex
ample, the original manuscripts of
his autobiography/Persons and
Places,’ was smuggled out of Rome,
where Santayana was living, during
World War II. The first part of it
was published in New York. When
Rome was liberated, an American
soldier familiar with Santayana’s
work showed him a copy of the edi
tion. It was the first time Santayana
had seen it. He had had no input on
its publication whatsoever.”
The original manuscript is avail
able and comparisons with it and the
first publication show many differ
ences. Passages had been omitted be
cause of wartime and changed be
cause the publishers were afraid of
libel.
“But when you change an author’s
words, the entire meaning of the
passage and what he actually meant
to say is different,” Calvert said.
Santayana’s unhappiness with the
published versions of his works is
documented in letters he wrote. So
the production of an accurate critical
edition has become necessary.
“Persons and Places,” Volume I of
the Santayana Edition, was pub
lished in February 1987.
“It is an excellent example of the
production of a critical edition be
cause it was taken from Santayana’s
original manuscript,” Calvert said.
“For a critical edition, the accuracy
demanded is 100 percent. So going
over and over things may become te
dious, but it is a very necessary part.
And when you find the mistake, ev
erything makes sense and it becomes
positive enforcement for us.
“There is also a lot of detective
work involved. Santayana doesn’t al
ways tell you who or where he’s quot
ing from, and it’s our job to track it
down. With his wide scope of knowl
edge, he leads us down many differ
ent and interesting pathways.”
Calvert has been with A&M 14
years and has been working on the
Edition for three years. She was cho
sen by Saatkamp in early 1987 to be
associate editor.
A&M serves as the center for the
Edition. Besides providing File and
office space, the University provides
much of the costly support services
such as bookkeeping, one research
assistant and computer service.
“The University provides much of
the tangible support that is ex
tremely necessary,” Saatkamp said.
The project has received substan
tial grants from the National Endow
ment for the Humanities and match-
ing funds from the Conn
Foundation and A&M.
Saatkamp has been head of the
Department of Philosophy and Hu
manities since 1985. Under his lead
ership, the department has grown in
budget and faculty. Undergraduate
enrollment, publications and majors
have increased in number. He is also
helping to found a music program
which may become the first music
department at A&M.
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Dr. Herman J. Saatkamp holds the first two volumes of a 20 vol
ume critical edition of the writings of American philosopher
George Santayana.
“Working at a University that has
just discovered the Liberal Arts is
very invigorating and a considerable
delight,” Saatkamp said. “The pro
gram is progressing and the re
search is going well, but there is
equal seriousness concerning under
graduate education.”
As general editor of the Edition,
he is the head of the project, in
charge of all matters, and has the fi
nal say in textual matters.
He works closely with William G.
Holzberger of Bucknell Umiversity
in Lewisburg, Pa. As textual editor,
Holzberger is in charge of the edit
ing of each volume and the textual
scholarship involved.
The project, instigated in 1976, is
likely to continue for 10 to 15 years.
The First two volumes are out and
work is continuing on volumes IV, V
and VI.
Volume II, “The Sense of Beau
ty,” published in November 1988, is
Santayana’s first major philosophical
work. It is based on lectures he gave
from 1892 to 1895 at Harvard Col
lege about the history and theory of
aesthetics.
These editions have been received
as a major contribution to philoso
phy and literature by the intellectual
community.
Volume III, “Interpretations of
Poetry and Religion,” will be pit
lished in Fall 1989.
“The Last Puritan,” VolumeIV.,
Santayana’a only novel. First pit
lished in 1935, it was on the Iks
seller list for several weeks a
landed his picture on the cover
l ime magazine in 1936.
Movie oilers came as soonasc
novel was released. Before Wt
War II, a script was written that
not please Santayana. Hesaidifti
script were used, he didn’t want
name or the title of his novel
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Calvert called Saatkamp a tn
workaholic who puts in long hoi
But Saatkamp countered, “If.i
something worth doing, then it's
hard work. , Jt
“Working on the edition isai
joy and of great long-run value.’’
Texas ‘Noah ’ builds boat on front lawn
MINERAL WELLS (AP) — Dale Scott never
has to worry about visitors finding his house.
It’s the one with the 65-foot steel boat in the
front yard.
For almost a year, Scott has been building the
boat by himself, fashioning hand-cut steel to
gether with a homemade hoist, a welding torch
and the sweat of his brow.
In three to five years, Scott hopes the rusty
hulk will be a four-cabin, four-bath luxury boat,
and a floating home for him, his wife and daugh
ter.
“Then, if you don’t like the front yard, you can
just move on to another one,” the 48-year-old
said. “You don’t have to be tied down to the con
fines of a house.”
Scott, a General Dynamics machine shop su
pervisor, has built things before, from a barbe
cue-smoker to a small tractor. But this is the first
time he has tackled a project of this magnitude.
He decided to build the boat after a longstand-
ingjob as a machinist ended in 1983.
“Then in ’84, I decided it might be pretty neat
to do something else,” the soft-spoken Scott said
with a grin.
The “something else” is a boat shell in the
driveway that dwarfs the family Volkswagen.
Neighbors don’t mind the sight because, Scott
pointed out, all have their own workshops. Some
Fiddle with cars, and one even made an ultralight
airplane.
But this is Morningside Street’s First boat.
“These neighbors over here wouldn’t ask me
for the longest time what I was building,” he said.
“They knew I worked for CD and they said
later they thought I was building something for
the government.”
Scott got interested in big boats when he, his
wife, Carol, and 18-year-old daughter, Michelle
Lea, took a seven-month vacation to see friends
in Alaska.
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rusted,” he said. “After I took her to a boatshoi e on vva
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the idea.”
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