Tragic Sense of Life
| Author | Miguel de Unamuno |
|---|---|
| Original title | Del sentimiento trágico de la vida |
| Language | Spanish |
Publication date | 1913 |
| Publication place | Spain |
Published in English | 1921 |
| Pages | 320 |
Tragic Sense of Life (Spanish: Del sentimiento trágico de la vida) is a 1913 book by the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno. It promotes a sceptical outlook where struggle and processes toward understanding are sources of meaning, and where a belief in God is motivated by the desire to exist and a fundamental legitimacy of feelings as sources of understanding.[1]
The book was translated into many languages, including English in 1921. The Catholic Church in Spain condemned it as dangerous. It was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1957.[2]
According to the scholar Miguel Ángel Cordero Del Campo, the worldview presented in the book is not truly tragic, in the sense of affirming reality by embracing limitations, but is instead based on a romantic affirmation of anxiety and agony.[3]
References
- ^ Zito, Jaime Arlene (2014). "Discovering the Tragic Sense of Life: an Examination of Philosophical Influence in Art and Self". Denison Journal of Religion. 13. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
- ^ Brown, P. E. (1974). "The Tragic Sense of Life, by Miguel de Unamuno, translated by A. Kerrigan". Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology. 5 (1): 89–92. doi:10.1080/00071773.1974.11006361.
- ^ Cordero Del Campo, Miguel Ángel (2003). "¿TRAGEDIA O TORTURA EN «EL SENTIMIENTO TRÁGICO DE LA VIDA» DE MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO? / Tragedy or Torture in Miguel de Unamuno's «Del Sentimiento Trágico de La Vida»?". Cuadernos de la Cátedra Miguel de Unamuno (in Spanish). 38: 13–28. JSTOR 45372114.
External links
- Project Gutenberg (English)
- Spanish Wikisource has original text related to this article: Del sentimiento trágico de la vida
- Media related to Del sentimiento trágico de la vida at Wikimedia Commons