María Zambrano
The thought of the philosopher and writer María Zambrano (Vélez-Málaga, 1904 – Madrid, 1991) has been persistently cited from three forms of nostalgia: political nostalgia for the effects of the civil war and exile for some of the most important intellectuals of the day; nostalgia for a strictly Spanish school of philosophy that recapitulates tradition and the future; poetic nostalgia for a language which, on its way to spirituality, does not exclude precision, remaining caustic while trying to name the sacred.
However, when we extract the thought of María Zambrano from this triple circle we find something more necessary than a Nietzschean philosopher with mystical inclinations: her theory of art and her hermeneutics of the world outline other uses for the word, forms of expression that are also ways to free us from alienation, ways of becoming undetect- able or rebellious.
The thinking of María Zambrano has been persistently invoked from three forms of nostalgia.