Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de
Unamuno y Jugo, Miguel de ( 1864 – 1936 ),Spanish writer and philosopher, born into a Basque family at Bilbao, and educated at the University of Madrid. He became professor of Greek at the University of Salamanca in 1892 and later became rector. A fierce and often eccentric critic of Spanish intellectual, social, and political life, who was at one point exiled for his views, he nevertheless opposed thoughtless ‘Europeanization’. He wrote plays, poems, novels, travel books, and short stories, but is perhaps best known in English-speaking countries for his philosophical essays, which show the influence of Kierkegaard , W. James , and Bergson . La vida de Don Quijote y Sancho ( 1905 ) is, in his own words, ‘a free and personal exegesis’ which perceives Don Quixote as the embodiment of the Spanish genius; Del sentimiento trágico de la vida ( 1912 ; The Tragic Sense of Life, 1921 ) is...
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