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Miguel de Unamuno's Quest for Faith [electronic resource] : A Kierkegaardian Understanding of Unamuno's Struggle to Believe.

By: Publication details: Havertown : James Clarke & Co, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (152 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780227902288 (electronic bk.)
  • 0227902289 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Miguel de Unamuno's Quest for Faith : A Kierkegaardian Understanding of Unamuno's Struggle to BelieveDDC classification:
  • 196.1
LOC classification:
  • PQ6639.N3
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright information; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Miguel de Unamuno's Life and Spiritual Formation; 3. Truth Must Be Lived; 4. Unamuno's Passion for Immortality; 5. Unamuno, Kierkegaard, and Pascal on the Role of Doubt in Faith; 6. The Unhealed Wound; 7. Unamuno's Faith and Kierkegaard's Religiousness A; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Back Cover
Summary: 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.
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright information; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Miguel de Unamuno's Life and Spiritual Formation; 3. Truth Must Be Lived; 4. Unamuno's Passion for Immortality; 5. Unamuno, Kierkegaard, and Pascal on the Role of Doubt in Faith; 6. The Unhealed Wound; 7. Unamuno's Faith and Kierkegaard's Religiousness A; 8. Conclusion; Bibliography; Back Cover

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.

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