María Zambrano

"The relationship between Seneca's prose works and his career as a first-century Roman statesman is problematic, for while he writes in the first person, he tells little of his external life or of the people and events that formed its setting. In this book, Miriam Griffin addresses the problem by first reconstructing Seneca's career using only outside sources and his de Clementia and Apocolocyntosis. In the second part of the book she studies Seneca's treatment of subjects of political significance, including his views on slavery, provincial policy, wealth, and suicide. Finding that on the whole, the word of the philosopher illuminates the work of the statesman, this book provides an important objective reconstruction of Seneca's the word of the philosopher illuminates the work of the statesman, this book provides an important objective reconstruction of Seneca's political career". --Publisher.

This book gathers the unpublished letters sent by young Oscar Castro to his first love interest, Estela Sepúlveda

Esta edición de Los intelectuales en el drama de España recoge la versión completa del segundo libro de María Zambrano. Al texto principal le acompaña una serie de cartas y artículos escritos durante los años de la guerra civil española, así como dos artículos retrospectivos sobre aquellos años de contienda. En el transcurso de estos escritos vemos el paso de una apasionada razón, directamente implicada en los avatares de la guerra civil, a otra razón que, sin renunciar a su lealtad a la República, toma una misericordiosa distancia, desde la que contempla la necesaria reforma vital del entendimiento y las mismas esperanzas que surgen de aquel trágico fracaso español. Es esta mediadora razón la que nos hace vislumbrar la fenomenología de lo que será la máxima originalidad del pensamiento de Zambrano: la Razón poética, cuyas raíces de crítica poética y cultural quedan plasmadas en esta obra.

Maria Zambrano's Delirium and Destiny makes the work of this major Spanish philosopher available in English for the first time. An excellent introduction to Zambrano's life and thought, it traces the intellectual formation of a young woman who became one of Jose Ortega y Gasset's most distinguished pupils, and it chronicles Zambrano's redefinition of his philosophical positions. A truly interdisciplinary work, this translation is accompanied by an extensive critical essay, a translator's afterword, and a glossary of pertinent historical and philosophical terms.