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Title: Tragic Sense Of Life

Author: Miguel de Unamuno

Release Date: January 8, 2005 [EBook #14636]

Language: English

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TRAGIC SENSE OF LIFE

MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

translator, J.E. CRAWFORD FLITCH

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC

New York

This Dover edition, first published in 1954, is an unabridged and
unaltered republication of the English translation originally published
by Macmillan and Company, Ltd., in 1921. This edition is published by
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CONTENTS

PAGES
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY xi-xxxii

AUTHOR'S PREFACE xxxiii-xxxv

I

THE MAN OF FLESH AND BONE

Philosophy and the concrete man--The man Kant, the man Butler, and
the man Spinoza--Unity and continuity of the person--Man an end not
a means--Intellectual necessities and necessities of the heart and
the will--Tragic sense of life in men and in peoples 1-18

II

THE STARTING-POINT

Tragedy of Paradise--Disease an element of progress--Necessity of
knowing in order to live--Instinct of preservation and instinct of
perpetuation--The sensible world and the ideal world--Practical
starting-point of all philosophy--Knowledge an end in itself?--The
man Descartes--The longing not to die 19-37

III

THE HUNGER OF IMMORTALITY

Thirst of being--Cult of immortality--Plato's "glorious
risk"--Materiali