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Maria Zambrano. Crisis of reason. Poetic reason. Persona.
Considering that in Brazil there is little bibliographic production regarding the thought of Maria Zambrano, mainly from a more philosophical perspective, since the works that appear on the platforms focus more on their religious/mystical and literary/aesthetic aspects, the respective dissertation aimed to fill this gap. Thus, the present dissertation was dedicated to reconstructing Maria Zambrano's critique of modernity (the crisis of reason), which consists of a genealogy of the Western/European crisis, called by Mercedes Gómez Blesá as Annihilation. In this way, from the historical-bibliographic research, in addition to the critical analysis of the historical, political and philosophical panorama, it was possible to identify the underlying concerns and motivations in his work (in which the genesis of the main notions of the Zambranian work can be found) , of poetic reason and persona), a modest systematic reorganization of the philosopher's writings and argumentation is also offered by exposing the stages and thematic axes of her thinking (critical or negative and affirmative or positive), which present all aspects of Zambranian thought: that start from a concern with an ethical and political dimension and migrate to an explanation of the crisis from an ontological and epistemological dimension, which lead to contributions, both in the aforementioned areas of knowledge, and in philosophical aesthetics. That said, this itinerary contributes to the identification, understanding and justification of the origins, relationships and purposes of the main notions of Zambrano's work (poetic reason and persona), as an alternative and overcoming modernity, with the aim of continuing to develop aspects specific to Zambranian thought.