Reality, Idealism, and the Subject/Object Divide: Antonio Machado and the Modernist Crisis of Knowledge

Nicolás Fernández Medina

Abstract


This article has two aims: first, to frame Antonio Machado’s early preoccupation with the nature of reality within the epistemological questions that were being raised in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century concerning the subject/object divide and established accounts of idealism, realism, and objectivity; and second, to demonstrate how Machado poetized the core question of reality through one of the most undervalued and fundamental areas of his work: the “Proverbios y cantares.”

 


Keywords


Machado; Reality; Idealism; Philosophy; Modernism; Spain

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