Dr N. Fernandez Medina is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Philosophy..

'Fernandez-Medina's book, with its decent bibliography and helpful index, shows that the finite inquiry into the works of Antonio Machado is far from being exhausted. This text is a serious and welcome contribution to that process.' - Philip G. Johnston, Bulletin of Spanish Studies August 2013

• INTRODUCTION Beyond the Lyrical and the Proverbial: Antonio Machado's Poetic Thinking I. THE PROBLEM OF SUBJECTIVITY: HOW TO KNOW THE SELF AND OTHER Kantian Metaphysics and the Need for Realness The Rise of Individualism Reading the Fragment, Reading the Whole: Poetry's Becoming The 'proverbio' and 'cantar': A Brief Genealogy II. TOWARDS CONCEIVING THE OTHER: THE FORMATIVE YEARS The Machado Family The Institucion Libre de Ensenanza and the Krausist 'hombre' The Madrid Years: Folk Poetry in the Age of Romantic Exhaustion The Influence of Eduardo Benot Early Poetic Symbolism: The Soledades III. FROM ART TO LIFE: CRITICAL INQUIRIES AND A NEW POETRY The Machado-Unamuno Correspondence 1903-1905 The modernismo Question Cain, Abel and the Thirsting Brother Poetic Inspiration: The Honey Bee IV. THE GOD OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY Spain's Spiritual Crisis and Unamuno's Lessons on God The Janus-faced God: Presence and Absence The Divine Light Within: Machado's Critique of Organized Religion Jesus as Symbol V. THE DOUBLE BIND OF KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE Ignorance and Spain's 'problema de cultura' The Problem of Empty-Headedness Cucana Logic The Collective Meaning of 'saber' The Infinity of Knowledge and Ignorance CONCLUSION The Infinite Inquiry Machado's Trajectory Toward Otherness From Machado to Levinas

Dr N. Fernandez Medina is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Philosophy..

'Fernandez-Medina's book, with its decent bibliography and helpful index, shows that the finite inquiry into the works of Antonio Machado is far from being exhausted. This text is a serious and welcome contribution to that process.' - Philip G. Johnston, Bulletin of Spanish Studies August 2013

• INTRODUCTION Beyond the Lyrical and the Proverbial: Antonio Machado's Poetic Thinking I. THE PROBLEM OF SUBJECTIVITY: HOW TO KNOW THE SELF AND OTHER Kantian Metaphysics and the Need for Realness The Rise of Individualism Reading the Fragment, Reading the Whole: Poetry's Becoming The 'proverbio' and 'cantar': A Brief Genealogy II. TOWARDS CONCEIVING THE OTHER: THE FORMATIVE YEARS The Machado Family The Institucion Libre de Ensenanza and the Krausist 'hombre' The Madrid Years: Folk Poetry in the Age of Romantic Exhaustion The Influence of Eduardo Benot Early Poetic Symbolism: The Soledades III. FROM ART TO LIFE: CRITICAL INQUIRIES AND A NEW POETRY The Machado-Unamuno Correspondence 1903-1905 The modernismo Question Cain, Abel and the Thirsting Brother Poetic Inspiration: The Honey Bee IV. THE GOD OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY Spain's Spiritual Crisis and Unamuno's Lessons on God The Janus-faced God: Presence and Absence The Divine Light Within: Machado's Critique of Organized Religion Jesus as Symbol V. THE DOUBLE BIND OF KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE Ignorance and Spain's 'problema de cultura' The Problem of Empty-Headedness Cucana Logic The Collective Meaning of 'saber' The Infinity of Knowledge and Ignorance CONCLUSION The Infinite Inquiry Machado's Trajectory Toward Otherness From Machado to Levinas

Dr N. Fernandez Medina is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Philosophy..

'Fernandez-Medina's book, with its decent bibliography and helpful index, shows that the finite inquiry into the works of Antonio Machado is far from being exhausted. This text is a serious and welcome contribution to that process.' - Philip G. Johnston, Bulletin of Spanish Studies August 2013

• INTRODUCTION Beyond the Lyrical and the Proverbial: Antonio Machado's Poetic Thinking I. THE PROBLEM OF SUBJECTIVITY: HOW TO KNOW THE SELF AND OTHER Kantian Metaphysics and the Need for Realness The Rise of Individualism Reading the Fragment, Reading the Whole: Poetry's Becoming The 'proverbio' and 'cantar': A Brief Genealogy II. TOWARDS CONCEIVING THE OTHER: THE FORMATIVE YEARS The Machado Family The Institucion Libre de Ensenanza and the Krausist 'hombre' The Madrid Years: Folk Poetry in the Age of Romantic Exhaustion The Influence of Eduardo Benot Early Poetic Symbolism: The Soledades III. FROM ART TO LIFE: CRITICAL INQUIRIES AND A NEW POETRY The Machado-Unamuno Correspondence 1903-1905 The modernismo Question Cain, Abel and the Thirsting Brother Poetic Inspiration: The Honey Bee IV. THE GOD OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY Spain's Spiritual Crisis and Unamuno's Lessons on God The Janus-faced God: Presence and Absence The Divine Light Within: Machado's Critique of Organized Religion Jesus as Symbol V. THE DOUBLE BIND OF KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE Ignorance and Spain's 'problema de cultura' The Problem of Empty-Headedness Cucana Logic The Collective Meaning of 'saber' The Infinity of Knowledge and Ignorance CONCLUSION The Infinite Inquiry Machado's Trajectory Toward Otherness From Machado to Levinas