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María Zambrano's ontology of exile
expressive subjectivity
Abstract
This book analyzes the exile ontology of Spanish philosopher María Zambrano (1904-1991). Karolina Enquist Källgren connects Zambrano's lived exile and political engagement with the Spanish Civil War to her poetic reason, and argues that Zambrano developed a theory of expressive subjectivity that combined embodiment with the expressive creativity of the human mind. The analysis of recurring literary figures and concepts—such as new materialism, the confession, image, the ruin, the heart, and awakening— show how a comprehensive argument runs as a thread through her works. Further, this book situates Zambrano's thought in a larger European philosophical context by showing how Zambrano's poetic reason was directly related to her unconventional exile readings of Martin Heidegger, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and Xavier Zubiri, among others.
Details | Table of Contents
exile in the Caribbean (1939–1952)
pp.39-78
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04813-6_3exile in Rome (1953–1964)
pp.79-125
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04813-6_4exile in La Pièce (1964–1984)
pp.127-162
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04813-6_5poetic reason and expressive subjectivity
pp.163-174
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04813-6_6Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2019
Pages: 177
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-030-04812-9
ISBN (digital): 978-3-030-04813-6
Full citation:
Källgren Karolina Enquist (2019) María Zambrano's ontology of exile: expressive subjectivity. Dordrecht, Springer.