Maria Zambrano Alarcón

Maria Zambrano Chronology 1904 - 1991

• 1904 - April 22 born in Malaga province, Spain.
• 1907 Her family moved to Jaen and then Segovia
• She attend Madrid University and studied philosophy on Orgega and Zubini. She was politically active during these years.
• 1936 She obtained a position teaching at Madrid Univeristy. In this year she married Alfonso Rodriguez Aldave who was the Secretary to the Spanish Embassy in Santiago, Chile.
• At the end of the Spanish Civil war she took a position as professo rat the University of Morelea, Mexico.
• She traveled to and taught in Cuba.
• 1966 Her work was recognized in Spain when "Los sueños de María Zambrano" was published in Revista de Occidente
• 1981 She was awarded the Prince of Asturia award
• 1983 She was named Doctor Honoris Causea by Malaga Univerity
• 1984 Returned to Madrid Spain

There is a video about her on YOUTube Maria Zambrano - Part 1 If you check the right hand boxes, you will find additional videos in this series.

Primary Sources:

• 1930 Horizontes del liberalismo (The Horizons of Liberalism)
• 1934 Hacia un saber del alma
• 1940 Filosofia y poesía (Philosophy and Poetry) Excerpts in English can be found at Maria Zambrano
• 1945 La agonía de Europa (The Agony of Europe)
• 1950 Hacia un saber sobre al alma (Towards a Knowledge of the Soul)
• 1953 El hombre y lo divino
• 1959 Persona y democracia (Person and Democracy)
• 1967 La tumba de Antígones (Antigones's Tomb)
• 1977 Claros del bosque
• 1986 De la aurora
• 1986 El reposo de la luz
• 1989 Para una historia de la piedad
• 1989 Delirio y destino (written in 1953; published in 1989), translated by Carol Maier, with a commentary by Roberta Johnson and Delirium and Destiny: A Spaniard in Her Twenties (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999)
• Cartas de la Pièce. Correspondencia con Agustín Andreu (published in 2002)
• 2003 Unamuno (written in 1940; published in 2003)

• Bush,Andrew."María Zambrano and the Survival of Antigone," diacritics 34 (3–4) (2004): 90–111.

Acknowledgments: I thank Sheilah Fernandez, NY for sending me the name of this philosopher and some basic information about her. If anyone reads Spanish and could help be expand thisitem with either the name of her parents, missing dates in her biography or additional items for that biography, please use the form below and put Maria Zambrano in the Subject line.