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Title: Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno ISBN: 0-486-20257-7 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1954 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book...
Comment: One of my favorite books in the field of philosophy. Unamuno seems to effortlessly cut through so much of the time-wasting academic drollery and nonsense that often clutters up this vital area of study. This isn't a philosopher getting lost in his own inane definitions and absurd mind games, this is the work of a man who lives to think, and thinks because he is in awe of life. Highly recommended to those who philosophize because they need to, not because they are trying to make other people think they are intelligent...
Rating: 5
Summary: men of flesh and bone
Comment: Other reviewers have called this book "philosophy for real men." Unamuno begins with this assertion. He rejects the Socratic "Man" as a creature of thought and not of substance. "Soy un hombre de carne y hueso!" he says: "I am a man of flesh and bone."
He works to provide the basis for a belief based on on reason, which he calls anti-vital, but on necessity. It is necessary for us, as men of flesh and bone, to believe that we can exist indefinitely. Reason tells us that we cannot. It is the confluence of these two beliefs that creates the tragic sense of life.
This is one of the best and most important books I've read, and I'd recommend it to anyone capable of sitting down and reading it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Catholic apologist
Comment: The tragic sense of life is the realization that we will die. This could lead to an existentialist exploration - how can we continue, since in the beginning is the end - but Fra Unamuno prefers to deny that we do in fact die. Railing against the "Jewish" philosopher Spinoza and Protestant theologians for being too rational, he extols the Catholic faith. This is a delightful absurdity, given Catholicism's reliance on Aquinas' scholastic philosophy, which, in its attempts at rational proofs of the existence of God and the immortality of the soul serves only to prove that medieval monasteries lacked fresh air and the smell of women. Unamuno, good friar that he is, confuses the natural desire not to die with a desire to live forever, not for a moment considering what that means. To continue as he is forever - but how is he? Aging, suffering loss of memory, loss of concentration, loss of, well, everything, as the brain winds down. All that increases is guilt and remorse as the pain of things done and undone grows. To continue that course forever? That cannot be eternity in God's presence - it can only be death without God.
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Title: Mist: A Tragicomic Novel by Miguel De Unamuno, Warner Fite, Theodore Ziolkowski ISBN: 0252068947 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Three Exemplary Novels by Miguel De Unamuno, Miguel De Unamuno, Angel Flores ISBN: 0802151531 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: May, 1987 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Abel Sanchez and Other Stories by Miguel De Unamuno, Miguel De Unamuno ISBN: 0895267071 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: What Is Philosophy? by Jose Ortega y Gasset ISBN: 0393001261 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: July, 1979 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Jose Ortega y. Gasset ISBN: 0393310957 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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