by Baltasar Gracián y Morales · Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses · Tapa dura · ISBN 9788477337331
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«Agudeza y arte de ingenio» is the philosophical essay by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, in hardback (995 pages, in Spanish).
Work in which Baltasar Gracián articulates his theory of wit: acuity as the faculty of discovering and expressing correspondences between ideas. Written in the Baroque aesthetic, this treatise is a key piece for understanding conceptist literature and seventeenth-century philosophy.
First edition in two volumes: introduction by Jorge M. Ayala; edition and notes by Ceferino Peralta, Jorge M. Ayala and José Ma. Andreu; includes references and indexes. Larumbe 31 (Philology series).
For scholars of Golden Age literature and philosophy, interested in an annotated edition with critical apparatus.
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. He is best known for his book The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), but his novel El Criticón (1651-57) is considered his greatest work.
