Subtitulo : Miguel de Unamuno the Precursor

Description:
During my undergraduate studies in philosophy and Hispanic literature at New York University, I became thoroughly familiar with the works of Miguel de Unamuno. In the graduate school program I focused my interest on his philosophy. My doctoral dissertation, ‘Unamuno in the Light of Contemporary Logical Empiricism;’ which was later published, marked the beginning of a lifelong study resulting in numerous publications on Unamuno’s philosophy.

Many Spanish and American philosophers and literary critics, e.g., González Caminero, Sánchez Barbudo and Gonzalo Sobejano, tend to emphasize only the existential and literary aspects of Unamuno’s works and connect him to nineteenth- and twentieth-century figures such as Soren Kierkegaard, William James, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus. Modern philosophers like Martin Heidegger, Gabriel Marcel, Carl Jaspers, and Paul Tillich are considered much more systematic and foundational and therefore more purely philosophical than Unamuno. Other Spanish thinkers, such as Hernán Benítez, deny that Unamuno was a philosopher at all. Benítez tells us that it is Unamuno’s excess of originality that prevents him from being a philosopher. It is my contention, as I tried to show in Unamuno a la luz del empirismo lógico contemporáneo, that it is precisely his originality-the impossibility of classifying Unamunothat makes him a great philosopher.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction….9

1. An Approach to Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem in Unamuno and the Analytic Thinkers…..21

2. Unamuno’s Theory of Language and its Reflection in the Analytic Philosphers and Modern Scientists…..69

3. The Problematica Nature of Reality in Unamuno, The Analytic Thinkers and Modern Scientsits…..85

4. The Prismatic Approaches to Truth: Unamuno Versus The Modern/Contemporary Analytic Thinders…..107

5. Unamuno’s Epistemology and The Analytic Methodology….133

6. Unamuno’s Approach to Religion and The Analytic Perspective…..149

Conclusion….185

Works cited….195

Index…..203