

Studied philosophy and letters, receiving his Ph.D. In 1880 he entered the University of Madrid, where he In his native city at the Colegio de San Nicolás and the Instituto

ThisĮxperience left deep traces in his political thinking. Traditionalist and progressive forces during the siege of Bilbao. In his childhood he witnessed the violence between When his father died, Unamuno was brought

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born in Bilbao, the third of sixĬhildren of Félix Unamuno, a proprietor of a bakery shop, and Salomé de Is seen and is heard the brother, the real brother." (from The One who is born, suffers and dies – above all, who dies the man whoĮats and drinks and plays and sleeps and thinks and wills the man who His essays had a great influence in early 20th-century Unamuno wrote his works in Spanish, although his mother tongue Hunger for personal immortality against all our rational knowledge of Philosophers and stressed that the deepest of all human desires is the As a philosopher Unamuno did not create a systematic Man's life, the horrendous void of non-being, in which reason offers noĬonsolation. Tension between reason and Christian faith, and the tragedy of death in Themes in Unamuno's work are the conflict between life and thought, the Miguel de Unamuno was one of the foremost representatives of the movement Generation Spanish author, philosopher, and educator, predecessor ofĮxistentialist philosophy with Søren Kierkegaard. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
