Although Julian Marias has inherited the mantle of the great Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset, he has developed a theory of philosophy exclusively his own that emerges clearly in this collection of fourteen essays. Marias’s unique view of the philosophical enterprise as a dramatic one is applied to considerations of literary genre, theism and atheism, the dramatic structure of philosophy, life and death, the human body, and the concept of power and reality.
This is the first work of Marias’s to appear in English since his History of Philosophy. The translation is as lucid as Marias’s thought and is significant and welcome addition to the available works of this important and original philosopher.

Philosophy As Dramatic Theory

Literature & Fiction

Marías, Julián

Dramas & Plays

Penn State University Press

With this one-volume, English-language presentation of two of his books on the United States, the Spanish philosopher Julián Marias joins the ranks of those foreign intellectuals and travelers who have made significant commentaries on our developing society.Such writers as Alexis de Tocqueville, Frances Trollope, Frederick Marryat, Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, James Bryce, and Denis Brogan have examined the American forest when our own writers have been detained among its trees. In forcing us to look at ourselves through their eyes, they have brought about major breakthroughs in our understanding and perception of ourselves.Rather than reiterating that the United States is a place dominated by modernity, by invasion of private life, and by aggressive materialism, Marias is charmed by "the flavor of age" he finds permeating the country, surprised by its "essential loneliness," and impressed by the basic spirituality of the American people who, in contrast to the Europeans, have already begun to reach a point of saturation in their desire for material goods. For our contemporary image of ourselves as a harassed nation, Marias offers consolation by reminding us of aspects of the national life we tend to forget and which other foreign commentators have found it convenient to ignore.

America in the Fifties and Sixties: Julián Marias on the United States

History & Criticism

In this penetrating exploration of human reality, written “in a single mental movement of almost sixteen unbroken months of work,” Marias has produced the most personal and original—and quite possibly the most important—of his many books. Its theme is its greatest novelty: the discovery of the level of reality that represents the empirical structure of human life.Metaphysical Anthropology brings to full development the course of Marias’s thought over a period of twenty years, and completes the interpretation of philosophical theory that began with his presentation of the philosophical past (History of Philosophy) and continued through his view of the theory of human life in its collective concreteness (The Social Structure).Metaphysical Anthropology will also appear in separate Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian editions, as well as in other major languages.

Metaphysical Anthropology: The Empirical Structure of Human Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Understanding Spain

A comprehensive and innovative exploration of Spain's history and culture

History

Europe

Univ of Michigan Pr

A comprehensive and innovative exploration of Spain's history and culture

Americas

Miguel de Unamuno

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Harvard University Press

A Biography of Philosophy

University Alabama Press

Structure Of Society

Social Sciences

Generations: A historical method,

The University of Alabama Press

A compelling, balanced examination into the historical and theological uniqueness of the Christian perspective and why it is that the Christianized areas of the world have tended to be the most enlightened and progressive. The work raises new questions about Christianity and, without sinking into dogmatism, suggests several fascinating answers.

The Christian Perspective

Halcyon Pr Ltd

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