EXÍLIO, RESISTÊNCIA E RAZÃO POÉTICA COM MARÍA ZAMBRANO

Abstract

: The present proposal focuses on thinking of María Zambrano's philosophy as a philosophy in transit and which, as such, is configured as a way of resisting the tragicity of a markedly agonizing existence in which personal dramas were exacerbated by the political issues of the her time, such as the military uprising of 1936 that gave rise to the Spanish civil war that culminated in the imposition of an exile that would last forty-five years. It is as an exile that Zambrano writes. She writes to fight despotism. She writes to free herself from the circumstances that beset her. It is in the opposite direction that Zambrano makes her crossings. In wandering, it is the poetic-thought that she comes closest to. Buried by mere spaces, philosophy is the trench chosen by Zambrano as her only place to be. And when alienation and tyranny persecute her, it is in the wake of subversion and rebellion that this philosopher walks. In this sense, this paper is permeated by a misdirection, an unraveling, and it is also a correspondence with Zambrano, a dialogue that is established with the suspense of distances, diluted in the relief of the answers; with the breath drawing the blind handwriting of the letter that does not arrive from Vélez-Málaga. This is how I think Zambrano's philosophy: as her correspondent, her accomplice, sharing a sealed intimacy of someone who even today is nowhere but on the back of things. Thus, walking through my own ruins to reach the pages of Zambrano, I violate destinations and erase the timelines in an attempt to present the concept of poetic reason, highlighting the immanent character of a foundation imposed by exile, a kind of “initiative rite” like the Zambrano describes in “Carta sobre el exilio”, a cry to resist the tyranny that stalks all of us.