by Miguel de Unamuno · Espasa-Calpe SA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423901418
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«Amor y pedagogía» is the philosophical and satirical novel by Miguel de Unamuno, published by Espasa-Calpe in paperback (169 pages, in Spanish).
A father decides to educate his son using pedagogical methods based on science, but life prevails over theory. Unamuno combines satire and philosophical reflection to show the conflict between reason and feeling and the limits of rationalism in the face of human nature.
Volume 141 of the Austral Collection. The novel was originally published in 1902; this edition is from 1989 and includes at the end «Apuntes para un tratado de cocotología».
Recommended for readers of classic Spanish fiction and for literature students interested in the work of Unamuno and the Generation of '98.
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher and academic. His major philosophical essay was Tragic Sense of Life (1913), and his most famous novels were Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion (1917), a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story, and Mist (1914), which The Literary Encyclopedia calls "the most acclaimed Spanish Modernist novel".
