Spanish Realism: Words and Things

Abstract

“Spanish realism” has provoked many and various interpretations, centering around the term as a “sui generis” form of relating man to reality, both at epistemological as well as moral and political levels. María Zambrano developed an especially notable approach in her first lectures on Mexican soil from her previous reflections in Hora de España, which are analysed in this article. From Unamuno and Ortega, she evolved her own very interesting position which, being itself based on a philosophy of the history of Spain, becomes a fully philosophical proposal without borders.