The Hermeneutics of Faith in the book Miguel de Unamuno's Del sentimiento trágico de la vida

Abstract

In Del sentimiento trágico de la vida, Unamuno establishes the foundation of his religious sentiment that can be exercised by flesh-and-blood persons immersed in existential anguish. This Unamunian attempt at religion differs from the traditional options that pretend to give meaning to a life without foundation. This article analyzes Miguel de Unamuno's thought on its religious component. It is a presentation of Unamuno as an author who writes compelled by the desire for immortality, who turns the tragic feeling into an original work born in a context full of existential and religious contradictions. To explain philosophically the tragic thelos, Unamuno makes of agony the symptom of authentic life, constitutive of a work that, in his case, merges into a single existential reality. We will conclude by reflecting on an Unamunian religion similar to a quixotism.