On the language of poetic reasoning

Abstract

Marí­a Zambrano's thought is intimately linked to the way in which things are expressed. Thus, the question is posed: What is a philosophy that is done with words? In the case of Marí­a Zambrano, it could be said that in her relationship with words the work of a complicated, but also unitary and coherent, intellectual trajectory is encoded. Her work brings together a continued endeavor in placing life in language, paying attention to what asks to be removed from silence through a labor which from the beginning is essentially linked to comunication. Zambrano's theorical proposal is based on the development of a kind of rationality, related to the vital, attentive, motherly, narrative, mediator and, in short, poetic reason, insofar as it is also a generator of meaning, capable of giving voice to the real, especially to the levels of reality which accede to the word with greater dificulty.