María Zambrano

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María Zambrano (April 22, 1904, Málaga – February 6, 1991) was a Spanish essayist and philosopher.

Zambrano studied under and was influenced by José Ortega y Gasset. Her involvement in the Spanish civil war caused her exile when Franco came to power.

A biographical chronology (in Spanish) is available here.

María querida (Dearest Maria), directed by José Luis García Sánchez in 2004, is a film about her life.

[edit] Bibliography

An extensive bibliography is available here.

Selected primary literature:

• Horizontes del liberalismo (The Horizons of Liberalism) (1930).
• Filosofia y poesía (Philosophy and Poetry) (1940).
• La agonía de Europa (The Agony of Europe) (1945).
• Hacia un saber sobre al alma (Towards a Knowledge of the Soul) (1950).
• Persona y democracia (Person and Democracy) (1959).
• La tumba de Antígones (Antigones's Tomb) (1967).
• Delirio y destino (1989), translated as Delirium and Destiny: A Spaniard in Her Twenties (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999).

Secondary literature:

• Andrew Bush, "María Zambrano and the Survival of Antigone," Diacritics volume 34, number 3–4 (2004): 90–111.

[edit] Sources

• Claire Buck (ed.), Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature (1992)