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Treatise on Love of God
Miguel de UnamunoTranslated from the Spanish and annotated by Nelson R. Orringer
Cloth978-0-252-03124-3
$40.00
| Pub Date: | 2007 |
| Pages: | 224 pages |
| Dimensions: | 6 x 9 in. |
A newly discovered treatise by a major European writer.
Miguel de Unamuno, perhaps the most influential author of modern Spain, wrote his Treatise on Love of God at the height of his career after suffering a crisis of religious faith. Like Saint Augustine’s Confessions and much of Kierkegaard, the Treatise is a study of religious inwardness, and proposes to analyze how God can be found within as a beloved person.
Not content with simple introspection, Unamuno also considers Church fathers like Athanasius, Origen, and Tertullian as well as modern religious scholars like Albrecht Ritschl, Auguste Sabatier, and Ernest Renan. Although Unamuno abandoned plans to publish the Treatise after Pope Pius X issued an encyclical against modernist theology, it deserves serious study as a prelude to his immensely successful Tragic Sense of Life and the concentrated work of a great thinker on a deeply serious subject.
"Gracefully translated from the manuscript with Unamuno's notations, and lucidly annotated by Orringer. . . . [These] notes contain such a wealth of learning and information to elucidate this seminal work that one can only thank Orringer for his heroic effort. Essential."--Choice
"The Treatise remained unknown to the reading public, until Nelson R. Orringer prepared it for publication, with a careful introduction and ample annotation. . . . Orringer is the man for the job and he acquits himself extremely well. . . . He situates the work in the context of Unamuno's unfolding religious thought, and relates it to historical context."--Times Literary Supplement
Novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, and philosopher, Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) won international renown for the courage and intelligence of his repeated challenges to the Spanish government. His Tragic Sense of Life (1913) remains a touchstone text in the modern quarrel between rationality and religion. Nelson R. Orringer is the professor emeritus in the department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of Ortega y sus fuentes germanicas and other books.
Series:
Hispanisms
Subjects:
Religion / Philosophy / Literature, European / Spanish Studies / Translation
