Miguel De Unamuno's Quest for Faith : A Kierkegaardian Understanding of Unamu...

by Jane. Evans

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Miguel De Unamuno's Quest for Faith : A Kierkegaardian Understanding of Unamuno's Struggle to Believe, Paperback by Evans, Jan E., ISBN 0227174364, ISBN-13 9780227174364, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 S ren 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 f

• Publisher: Clarke Company, The Limited, James
• Year: 2014
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780227174364
• Condition: Fine

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