Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction; The Significance of Zambrano's Exile; Exile and Subjectivity; The Problem of Transcendental Subjectivity; Poetic Reason I; References; Chapter 2 Homeland (1904-1939); Zambrano's Madrid; España Mater Dolorosa; A New Materialism; The Life of the People; References; Chapter 3 Spanish Materialism, Caribbean Expression: Exile in the Caribbean (1939-1952); Zambrano's Critique of the Ideal Subject; Caribbean Erkenntnistheorie; Augustine's Confession and the Disclosure of an Originary Sensing; In Direction of the Other

The Patria Pre-natal of Cuba and Puerto RicoZambrano's Caribbean Reading of Ortega and Husserl; An Early Analysis of the Soul as an Expressive Function; The Soul Between Heidegger and Aristotle; Expression and Epistemology of the Soul; References; Chapter 4 Transcending Embodiment: Exile in Rome (1953-1964); Returning to the Centre of the World; The Poetic Possibilities of Zambrano's Exile Space; Exile Space-Time; Space-Time in El hombre y lo divino; Nothingness; Ruin: Subjectivity in Space and Time; An Architecture of Existence: Substance and Totality; Place as a Limit-Concept

Freedom of an Expressive Soul in a Universe of SignsZambrano and the Kantian Debate in the Aftermath of the Theory of Relativity; The Nature of Expression; References; Chapter 5 The Signs of Expression: Exile in La Pièce (1964-1984); Zambrano's Exile Writing During the French Years: Poetic Reason as a Method; The Figure of Awakening; The Heart as a Living Function; Points and Circles: The Perception of Signs; Directionality; A Critique of Discursive Reason; Signs of Life and the Human Symbol; References; Chapter 6 Concluding Discussion: Poetic Reason and Expressive Subjectivity

Poetic Reason IIReferences; Index