우나무노(Miguel de Unamuno)의 철학과 생의 비극적 감정

Abstract

Unarnuno is at once a great author and a philosopher Spain produced at the beginning of the 20th century. Unamuno has a very original personality, knowing how to harmonize literature and philosophy. He is also a paradoxical and anti-rational writer, and the theme he treats repeatedly in his writings coincides with the essential philosophical subject. In this sense we can say he is a philosophical author. His works are, however, remarkable literary ones by their own quality. They are nevertheless no simple literarily decoration to the philosphical thinking. Unamuno is much too artistically and literary well-grounded to walk into that trap. When Unamuno writes, he tries to show us something more; for example he is haunted by the problem of human conscience after death. At the same time, his meditation centes on the man of flesh and bones, not on the abstract humanity. Reason is an enemy of life for Unamuno. For this he refuses to express his philosophy through reason. Arriving at the conclusion that reason can't solve the problems of life and death, Unamuno chooses novel and drama, in other words, literature, as a means to express his philosophy.