by María Zambrano · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478443147
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«Persona y democracia: La historia sacrificial» is the philosophical essay by María Zambrano, published by Siruela in paperback (216 pages, in Spanish).
Written in 1958, this essay by María Zambrano reflects on the human being's renunciation of living as a person in a present without a historical project, dominated by powers that demand sacrifices. Zambrano presents the book as testimony to what history could have been: the passage from the tragic mode to the free mode of making history.
Second edition in the Biblioteca de Ensayo / Serie mayor collection, number 2. Includes a prologue by the author dated 1987.
For readers of political philosophy and historiography interested in the thought of María Zambrano and in reflection on democracy.
María Zambrano Alarcón was a Spanish philosopher, intellectual, and essayist. Her extensive work between poetic reflection and civic engagement was not recognized in Spain until the last quarter of the 20th century, after a nearly 45-year-long exile. In 1988, Zambrano became the first woman to receive the Premio Cervantes, the highest literary honor in the Spanish-speaking world. She is increasingly regarded as one of the most important voices of the 20th century, and Spanish scholarship often places her alongside thinkers such as Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt, as well as her close friend and contemporary Rosa Chacel.
