La consciencia histórica e intrahistórica en Miguel de Unamuno

Abstract

We’ll study the Unamuno’s concept of consciousness based on the ontological notions of history and intrahistory. We try to understand the double meaning of the Unamuno’s concept of consciousness considering the own ontological principles from the first stage of his formation, which are restructured in the concepts of carnal subjectivity and historical subjectivity, under the transmutation of his thought from the exteriority to the interiority. This methodology is legitimized in the philosophical background of Unamuno’s thought which is separated from the concept of collective consciousness in favor of the concept of individual consciousness. We’ll consider important the notion of substance that the author conceives and interprets in Life of Don Quixote and Sancho and in Tragic sense of life. Based on his existentialism, of vitalist sort, the concepts of appearance and reality assume peculiar nuances in the double dimension of the concept of consciousness, when they are compared with the Spinoza’s conatus.