Poetic Reason

María Zambrano María Zambrano Alarcón was born in Vélez-Málaga on 22 April 1904 and died in Madrid on 6 February 1991. She studied philosophy at the Universidad Central in Madrid, where she was a disciple of José Ortega y Gasset, Xavier Zubiri and Manuel García Morente, and taught before the Civil War. Committed to the Republican cause, she left Spain in 1939 and lived almost half a century in exile, in places including Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Rome, France and Switzerland, returning to Madrid in 1984. She received the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities in 1981 and the Cervantes Prize in 1988, the first woman to win it. ...