Agustin Andreu or the inteligence of life

Abstract

From the thought and life experience of Agustin Andreu Rodrigo, Maria Luisa Maillard draws in this interview what the former calls the ‘other Illustration’, in the composition of which the Spanish philosophers before the Civil War, such as Maria Zambrano, Miguel de Unamuno and Antonio Machado, have played a determinant role. This ‘other Illustration’ about which Agustín Andreu Rodrigo talks separately from the model of Kantian Illustration, remains close to the metaphysical and religious spaces in which María Zambrano stands out as ‘a single and unique character’. This interview with Maillard, on the other hand, leads us not only to the importance and validity of María Zambrano’s thought, but also to the identification of the errors made by some characters of the Western thought tradition such as Leibniz and Böhme.