In our article we try to approximate to the topic of Spanish romanticism and the cosmovision of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer in particular. We evaluate the role of universal romantic symptom – the feeling of loneliness in Bécquer’s Rimas and observe how his poetic world is linked to the existensial vision of Miguel de Unamuno.

En nuestro artículo intentamos acercarnos al tema del existencialismo español, y a la visión filosófica de Miguel de Unamuno en particular. Entendiendo las razones del filosofar y revisando los vínculos que existen entre la filosofía y la literatura, investigamos los gérmenes del existencialismo romántico y pre-existencialismo literario que cumplen una función precursora del existencialismo filosófico cultivado en los textos de Unamuno, tanto literarios como documentales. In our article we try to approximate to the theme of spanish existencialism and the views (...) of Miguel de Unamuno in particular. Evaluating the reasons of philosophizing and revising the relation between phylosophy and literature, we investigate the origins of romantic existencialism and literary pre-existencialism which has the precursor function of phylosophical existencialism cultivated in Unamuno’s literary and documentary texts. (shrink)

This paper deals with the possible ways of understanding the relation between the reconstruction of history and literary fiction. The transmission of memory across generations – postmemory, and the composition of literary works out of the place of the origin – ectopic literature – facilitate the formation of historical discourse, which is inevitably accompanied by modern interpretation. As interpretation is understanding reality in a subjective manner, literary fiction takes its place in the reconstruction of historical events. And ectopic literature is (...) one of the main narratives, which helps to understand the relation between facts and fantasy. (shrink)

This book intends to present Mamardashvili’s philosophical perspective on modern society by exemplifying in different ways its distinctive contribution to the greater philosophical landscape. It allows a wide audience to discover the remarkable insights of Mamardashvili’s philosophy.