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| Author(s): | Marset, Juan Carlos |
| Title: | María Zambrano, vida y obra, 1904-1939 : los años anteriores al exilo/ |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 479 leaves, bound. |
| Issue Date: | 1990 |
| Description: | In Spanish; appendix in English. Department: Spanish. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1990. |
| Bookmark as: | http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:2020 |
| Full Text (ProQuest): | /ac/proxit.jsp?url=http://gateway.proquest.com/ope... |
| Abstract: | This dissertation concerns a study of Maria Zambrano's works, life and thinking in the "formation" period within the intellectual development of this Spanish philosopher: starting off with her birth in 1904 until the beginning of her long political exile at the end of the Civil War in 1939. The position maintained in this dissertation is such that the period under consideration can be viewed and defined within the whole framework of Maria Zambrano's life and works as an intensive and critical "vocational indecision". The wide variety of intellectual activities the author developed during this time (in the fields of philosophy, literature, politics, pedagogy, university teaching, journalism ...) corresponds with a similar complexity of subjects, concepts, genres and literary styles in her works. Towards the end of the period under review this "indecision" is resolved by an intuition, fundamental to the later development of her works, in relation to the concept and use of the "reason" (the "multiplicidad de la razon" in its functioning: the "razon poetica", "razon mediadora", "razon misericordiosa" ...), and by her personal emancipation from those who had been her masters. As an "intellectual biography", this dissertation uses the theoretical principals with which Leon Edel has transformed the methodology and practice of biographical studies in his works Literary Biography (1957) and Writing lives. Principia biographica (1988). In accordance with this theoretical framework, the structure of this dissertation and the style used in its wording and argumentation are considered to be fundamental and inseparable elements of the subject-matters studied. The critical and scientific body of the dissertation is founded on an extensive biographic and bibliographic documentation including conversations with Maria Zambrano herself and other people who are involved in her life and works. |
| Collection(s): | Doctoral Dissertations |
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