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This side of philosophy : literature and thinking in twentieth-century Spanish letters / Stephen Gingerich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gingerich, Stephen, author.
- Series:
- SUNY Series, Literature ... in Theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy in literature.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Spain--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Spain.
- Unamuno, Miguel de, 1864-1936--Philosophy.
- Unamuno, Miguel de.
- Ortega y Gasset, José, 1883-1955--Philosophy.
- Ortega y Gasset, José.
- Machado, Antonio, 1875-1939--Philosophy.
- Machado, Antonio.
- Zambrano, María--Philosophy.
- Zambrano, María.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface: Life (before) Philosophy
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Closer Than You Think: Spain and Philosophy
- "Spanish Thought," Living on the Margins of Philosophy
- From the Outside In, Valera to Unamuno
- "This Side": More Philosophical Than Philosophy
- Ortega, the Philosophical-Literary Life
- Machado, the Figure of the Poet-Philosopher
- Zambrano, "Reason and Poetic Reason"
- A Literary Path toward Philosophy
- Chapter 2 Relating Philosophy and Literature: Greeks and Romantics, Dichten-Denken, and le Poematique
- "Philosophy and Literature," and Their Relations
- Literature and the Wisdom-Loving Greeks
- Literature's Arrival: Romantic Reversals
- Taking Back Philosophy and Poetry: Heideggerian Denken and Dichten
- Invention (in Principle) Impossible: Literature and Derrida
- The Ongoing Relation
- Chapter 3 Unamuno's Twins: Feeling Philosophy and Philosophical Aesthesis
- Prologue: The Promise of Life
- Raising a Hand against Philosophy
- Literature on the Fringes of Philosophy: The Conclusions and Contradictions of The Tragic Feeling
- Life, Death, and the Need to Feel
- The Form of Your Death: The Possibilities of the Novel
- The Ends of Unamuno
- Chapter 4 Josue Ortiga y Gazette and Reason's Living Narrative
- Prologue: The Genesis of Life
- Meditations, Meditations, and the Joshua Method
- The Theme of Our Time, Vital Reason, and the General Biology to Come
- "Behind Itself ": What Is Philosophy?
- Ortega's Life and Limits
- Chapter 5 Antonio Machado, Writing Ephemeral Passages
- Philosophical Poetry
- The Form of Life: The Possibilities of the Poem in the "Cancioneros apócrifos"
- Thinking by Another Name: Pseudonymity, Heteronomy, and the Apocryphal Writers
- Difference, Relation, and the Poematic Metaphysics to Come
- In the Meantime: Adopting Valery and Truncating Heidegger
- Passages: Poetry to Philosophy and Back
- Literature, Philosophy, and the Machado Machine
- Chapter 6 "Inconstant Clarity": The Antagonism of Philosophy and Poetry in María Zambrano
- Prologue: Beginning with Principles
- Precedents and Departures: Genealogies of Poetry and Philosophy
- Reason in Crisis, in "Europe"
- The "Ancient Quarrel," to Be Continued
- "Poetic Poetry": Zambrano and Her Contemporaries
- "Counterpositioning": The Movement of "Poetic Reason" in Zambrano's Interpretation of Emilio Prados
- This Side, the Nameless Clearing
- Epilogue: Philosophy after Life
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Gingerich, Stephen This Side of Philosophy
- ISBN:
- 9781438492223
- 1438492227
- OCLC:
- 1363100656
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