The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations

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Princeton University Press, 1977 - 528 pages

The acknowledged masterpiece of Unamuno expresses the anguish of modern man as he is caught up in the struggle between the dictates of reason and the demands of his own heart.

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Contents

The Man of Flesh and Blood
3
The Point of Departure
23
The Hunger for Immortality
43
The Essence of Catholicism
65
The Rational Dissolution
88
In the Depths of the Abyss
118
Love Pain Compassion and Personality
146
From God to God
172
Faith Hope and Charity
204
Religion Mythology of the Beyond and Apocatastasis
236
The Practical Problem
282
Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragicomedy
322
Unamuno and the Contest with Death
361
NOTES
377
INDEX
491
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