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Martino Fine Books The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and in Peoples by Miguel de Unamuno
2013 Reprint of 1921 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Miguel de Unamuno (18641936) was a Spanish essayist novelist poet playwright and philosopher. His major philosophical essay was The Tragic Sense of Life (1913) and his most famous novel was Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion (1917) a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story. He was along with Ortega y Gasset one of Spains most influential philosophers. Unamunos significance is that he was one of a number of notable interwar intellectuals along with luminaries such as Julien Benda Karl Jaspers Johan Huizinga and José Ortega y Gasset who resisted the intrusion of ideology into western intellectual life.show more