Caritas et veritas 2012, 2(2):33-40 | DOI: 10.32725/cetv.2012.015
Ethical and Religious Appeal of Unamuno's Quixotism
- Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Teologická fakulta, Kněžská 8, 37001 České Budějovice
The study deals with the problems of quijotism in the conception of Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936), a Spanish writer and philosopher, as an alternative philosophy of life and Spanish religion with respect to its ethical-religious heritage. Apart from author's philosophical and religious ground, Unamuno's quijotism is put into the historical context of the development of Spanish philosophy including changes of author's personal attitudes to the theme of quijotism with a breakthrough in 1905, when his essay La Vida de don Quijote y Sancho was published. The study contains his interpretation of don Quijote and its immersion in the ethical-philosophical framework of S. Kierkegaard's (1813-1855) teachings (e.g. knights of faith Abraham and Quijote in comparison, practical application of Kierkegaard's theory about three stages of existence with the character of don Quijote). Furthermore there is a parallel drawn between quijotism and Kierkegaard's religiousness A in the end. Final passages of the text concentrate on the critical evaluation of quijotism from the point of view of its actual contribution to the spheres of ethics and religion of present days.
Keywords: M. de Unamuno, Quijote, Quijotism, Ethics, Christianity, S. Kierkegaard, Religiousness.
Published: September 30, 2012 Show citation
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