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Art Echo: María Zambrano and the Kouroi Relief

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Art Echo: María Zambrano and the Kouroi Relief (EN)
Peña Benavente, Karen
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Peer-reviewed Article (EN)
2013-05-01
The aim of this paper is to examine the role of early Greek thought in the work of María Zambrano, a Spanish critic and philosopher who lived most of her life in exile (1939-1984). Zambrano incorporates Greek concepts into her writing as a means to question conventional Philosophy, not as an aim or télos, but as an uncomfortable dwelling that paradoxically leads into suspension and doubt. Key concepts and artistic figures emerge in her seemingly illogical reasoning (razón poética) such as those arising from her work on the Greek Kouroi. Zambrano refuses fixity in Philosophy, where logic and method can be rigorously apprehended. She gracefully takes another turn: by elucidating ancient wisdom through allusive metaphors and ancient ruins, she resists direct pathways into History and Truth. Her style takes after her thinking and can often meander into the realms of enigma, mysticism, and other unconventional forms of thought such as intuition and dreams. (EN)
Kouroi (EN)
ruins (EN)
Zambrano (EN)
Greek (EN)
Philosophy (EN)
Synthesis
English
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EN)
1791-5155
Synthesis: an Anglophone Journal of Comparative Literary Studies; No. 5 (2013): Hellenism Unbound; 94-119 (EN)
Copyright (c) 2013 Karen Peña Benavente (EN)
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