Miguel de Unamuno | |
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Unamuno in 1925 | |
Born | Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo 29 September 1864 |
Died | 31 December 1936 | (aged 72)
Alma mater | Complutense University of Madrid |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Spanish philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy Positivism Existentialism |
Main interests | Philosophy of religion, political philosophy |
Notable ideas | Agony of Christianity |
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (/uːnəˈmuːnoʊ/; Spanish: [miˈɣ̞el ð̞e̞ unaˈmuno i ˈxuɣ̞o]; 29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.
His major philosophical essay was The Tragic Sense of Life (1912),[1] and his most famous novels were Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion (1917),[2] a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story, and Mist (1914), which Literary Encyclopedia calls "the most acclaimed Spanish Modernist novel".[3]