Philosophy and poetry in Maria Zambrano

Abstract

Maria Zambrano is the most important Spanish intellectual of the 20th Century. As disciple of Ortega and Zubiri, Zambrano has been able to understand what would best turn possible the formulation of a thinking, at the same time autonomous and deep, in relation with her masters. As a Republican, she struggled against the horrors of Spanish Civil War and its consequences, without, naturally, resigning herself. Precisely, it was in exile that the work I will study ecloded: Philosophy and poetry. The main objective is to prove, based on Zambrano´s thinking, how is it possible to confirm the postulate of poetical reason able to overwhelm the established contradiction, with the appearance of the philosophical thinking between irrationality (poetry) and reason (philosophy), thus contributing, to the establishment of a common field in which philosophical thinking, more than the expression of the latest structures of reality (the Being), is creation and opening for the unexpected (the process of being).