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Unamuno and Kierkegaard: Paths to Selfhood in Fiction
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Unamuno and Kierkegaard: Paths to Selfhood in Fiction Hardback - 2005

by Jan E. Evans

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From the publisher

Miguel de Unamuno was profoundly influenced by S ren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works at a time when Kierkegaard was virtually unknown in Southern Europe. This book explores the scope and character of that influence, clarifies misconceptions in the relationship between the authors, and offers an original, Kierkegaardian reading of three of Unamuno's best known novels: Niebla, San Manuel Bueno, mrtir, and Abel Snchez. Both authors hold a "self as achievement" view in which the authentic self is seen as the result of the choices one makes over a lifetime. For Kierkegaard, the spheres of existence-the esthetic, the ethical, and the religious-are "stages on life's way" to becoming an authentic self before God. Unamuno, however, holds that the same spheres of existence offer equally valid modes of authentic existence as long as one chooses them freely and passionately. This book will be of great interest to scholars of existentialism, Unamuno, and Kierkegaard.

Details

  • Title Unamuno and Kierkegaard: Paths to Selfhood in Fiction
  • Author Jan E. Evans
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 136
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lexington Books
  • Publication date 2005-06-06
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780739110799 / 0739110799
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.23 x 6.27 x 0.64 in (23.44 x 15.93 x 1.63 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Kierkegaard, Sren, Unamuno, Miguel de
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005001180
  • Dewey Decimal Code 196.1

About the author

Jan E. Evans is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Division of Spanish and Portuguese, at Baylor University.

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