María Zambrano: “Delirium and Destiny.” Twenty years of a Spanish woman

Abstract

Delirium and Destiny is the summary work and a before and after of Zambrano’s political activity during the pre-war and Spanish civil war. It is the testimony of the years lived from her idea of close connection between politics and life. Her intention since the first Adsum with which the book begins until the last one, shows her determination to put herself with all the responsibility she was able to respond to the three-year civil war, from a spiritual and rooted perspective of her own life and Spain’s history. She did not want to leave the defeat to the winners nor to the ones who did not understand her, including Europeans. Here, emerging metaphysical categories and intuitions (of Ortega´s inspiration) appear and, in addition, Zambrano definitely leaves her past behind and goes on to raise her metaphysical work, being placed in the core of European philosophy