María Zambrano e la ragione poetica: un nuovo orizzonte per la storia della filosofia

The essay explores María Zambrano’s concept of “poetic reason” as a path to renew philosophical thinking. Going beyond the divide between abstract rationality and emotional life, Zambrano recovers a form of knowledge rooted in experience, vulnerability, and relation. In this framework, philosophy and religion become intertwined, and thinking itself becomes a transformative existential act. Knowledge is no longer domination, but listening, compassion, and openness to what transcends. Through key texts, the essay shows how this alternative vision does not reject tradition but reworks it deeply