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Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) was a extraordinary Spanish thinker, a philosopher, linguist, poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, professor, university administrator, and Spanish public intellectual. He had great intellectual integrity and moral courage.
Unamuno is not an easy philosopher to read. He loved paradoxes and even (at times) contradictions. Various interpreters have called him an atheist, a sceptic, a Protestant, a pantheist, a Catholic modernist, and a good Catholic. Passages can be found in his writings that can be taken to support all of these interpretations. In the present book, Jan E. Evans does an incisive and thorough job of sorting through the Unamuno corpus and arriving at a definitive interpretation of his views. One great asset of Evans’ work is the insight she gains by comparing Unamuno’s works with the philosophers whom he admired most and considered his fellow travellers in the tragic sense of life. These include Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), William James (1842–1910), and especially Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855).
This book examines the life and work of Unamuno through the lens of his faith. Those who are not familiar with Unamuno will find here a clear exposition of the most important themes in the thinker's work along with a framework through which one can profitably begin to read the
primary texts.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Stephen T. Davis
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 Introduction: A Map for the Journey
2 Miguel de Unamuno’s Life and Spiritual Formation
3 Truth Must Be Lived: Unamuno and Kierkegaard on "Truth is Subjectivity"
4 Unamuno’s Passion for Immortality: Narcissism or Foundation for Religious Belief?
5 Unamuno, Kierkegaard and Pascal on the Role of Doubt in Faith
6 The Unhealed Wound: Suffering in Unamuno and Kierkegaard
7 Unamuno’s Faith and Kierkegaard’s Religiousness A: Making Sense of the Struggle
8 Conclusion: How Miguel de Unamuno Lived Out his Faith
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 Introduction: A Map for the Journey
2 Miguel de Unamuno’s Life and Spiritual Formation
3 Truth Must Be Lived: Unamuno and Kierkegaard on "Truth is Subjectivity"
4 Unamuno’s Passion for Immortality: Narcissism or Foundation for Religious Belief?
5 Unamuno, Kierkegaard and Pascal on the Role of Doubt in Faith
6 The Unhealed Wound: Suffering in Unamuno and Kierkegaard
7 Unamuno’s Faith and Kierkegaard’s Religiousness A: Making Sense of the Struggle
8 Conclusion: How Miguel de Unamuno Lived Out his Faith
Bibliography