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.

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Karolina Enquist Källgren is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of History, Lund University, and guest researcher in the Department of Literature, History of Ideas and Religion, Gothenburg University. She is part of an editorial team publishing Zambrano's collected works. 

Inhalt

1.      Introduction

1.1  Exile and subjectivity

1.2  The problem of transcendental subjectivity

1.3  Subjectivity and ontology

1.4  Poetic reason I

1.5  References  

2.      Homeland (1904-1939)

2.1  Zambrano's Madrid

2.2  España Mater dolorosa

2.3  A new materialism

2.4  The life of the people

2.5  References

3.      Spanish materialism, Caribbean expression: Exile in the Caribbean (1939-1952)

3.1 Zambrano's critique of the ideal subject

3.2 Caribbean Erkenntnistheorie

3.3 Augustine's confession and the disclosure of an originary sensing

3.4 The patria pre-natal of Cuba and Puerto Rico

3.5 Figures of subjectivity in La Confesión

3.6 Zambrano's early analysis of the expressive functions

3.7. Expression and epistemology of the soul

3.8 References

4.      Transcending embodiment: Exile in Rome (1953-1964)

4.1 Returning to the centre of the world

4.2 The poetic possibilities of Zambrano's exile space

4.3 Exile space-time

4.4 Space-time in El Hombre y lo divino

4.5 Nothingness

4.6 Ruin: subjectivity in space and time

4.7 An architecture of existence: the notion of substance

4.8 Place as a limit-concept

4.9 Freedom of an expressive soul in a universe of signs

4.10 Zambrano and the Kantian debate in the aftermath of the theory of relativity

5.      The signs of expression: Exile in La Pièce (1964-1984)

5.1 Zambrano's exile writing during the French years: poetic reason as a method

5.2 The figure of awakening

5.3 The heart as a living function

5.4 Points and circles: the perception of signs

5.5 Directionality and expressive subject formation

5.6 A critique of discursive reason

5.7 Signs of life and the human symbol

5.8 Originary sensing 5.9 Poetic reason II