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Miguel de Unamuno was born in Bilbao, a port city of the Basque Country, Spain, the son of Félix de Unamuno and Salomé Jugo. [4] As a young man, he was interested in the Basque language , which he could speak, and competed for a teaching position in the Instituto de Bilbao against Sabino Arana .
Unamuno rejected systematic philosophy in favor of the individual's quest for faith. He retained a sense of the tragic, even absurd nature of the quest, symbolized by his enduring interest in the eponymous character from the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote .
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo; Miguel García (anarchist) ... Plantinga's free-will defense; Plasticien; ... Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology;
Among the giants of Generación de 1898 Miguel de Unamuno was chronologically the first one to address the Carlist question in a literary work; Paz en la guerra (1897) remained also his only novel featuring Carlism, [151] though the phenomenon was discussed also in his numerous essays, treaties, studies and all genres which do not fall into ...
"Anti-Intellectualism and the "Dumbing Down" of America". psychology today. 2014. There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility.
The term nivola appears for the first time as a subtitle for Unamuno's book Niebla.With this term, the writer was trying to express his rejection of the dominant principles of realism as expressed in novels: the psychological characterization of the characters, the realistic environments, and the third-person omniscient narrator.
When the novel was published Spain has been enjoying some 20 years of political stability, the first such period in the 19th century. The regime, usually named "Restoration", was monarchy combined with parliamentarian liberal democracy; two key parties were interchanging at power and fundamental flaws of the system – its elitism, corruption and caciquismo – were not clearly visible yet. [4]
Another man of the Institution, Aniceto Sela, promoted Institución para la Enseñanza de la Mujer de Valencia, [22] and several founders were involved in projects related to the social promotion of women, among them Juan Facundo Ríaño, Rafael Torres Campos and Francisco Giner de los Ríos himself, who taught psychology at the Escuela de ...