Miguel de Unamuno
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"Unamuno" redirects here. For other uses, see Unamuno (disambiguation).
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Unamuno and the second or maternal family name is Jugo.
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.
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Born | Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo 29 September 1864 (1864-09-29) |
Died | 31 December 1936 (1937-01-01) (aged 72) |
Nationality | Spanish |
Alma mater | Complutense University of Madrid |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Spanish philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy Positivism Existentialism |
Main interests | Philosophy of religion, political philosophy |
Notable ideas | Agony of Christianity |
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His major philosophical essay was The Tragic Sense of Life (1912),[1] and his most famous novel were Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion (1917),[2] a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story, and Mist (1914), which Literary Encyclopedia calls "the most acclaimed Spanish Modernist novel".[3]