This Side of Philosophy: Literature and Thinking in Twentieth-Century Spanish Letters

by Stephen Gingerich

Overview

Assesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438492216
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	02/01/2023
Series:	SUNY series, Literature . . . in Theory
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Stephen Gingerich is Professor of Spanish at Cleveland State University. He is the translator of Doing Justice: Three Essays on Walter Benjamin by Pablo Oyarzun.

Table of Contents

Preface: Life (before) Philosophy
Acknowledgments

1. Closer Than You Think: Spain and Philosophy

2. Relating Philosophy and Literature: Greeks and Romantics, Dichten-Denken, and le Poématique

3. Unamuno’s Twins: Feeling Philosophy and Philosophical Aesthesis

4. Josué Ortiga y Gazette and Reason’s Living Narrative

5. Antonio Machado, Writing Ephemeral Passages

6. “Inconstant Clarity”: The Antagonism of Philosophy and Poetry in María Zambrano

Epilogue: Philosophy after Life
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This book offers a new perspective on why and how philosophy was 'literary' in Spain in the twentieth century, rooting this issue not in an authorial choice or a writing strategy but rather in the idea that it was through the possibilities of literature that life, considered a reality 'prior' to any philosophical inquiry, could be grasped." — Juan Herrero-Senés, co-editor of Avant-Garde Cultural Practices in Spain (1914-1936): The Challenge of Modernity

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