Ramón Xirau: la verdad en la poesía y la pertinencia filosófica de las imágenes

Abstract

Xirau is a philosopher who is always seeking the union between philosophical arguments and poetical images. He is seduced by the eloquence and the persuasiveness of images. In this paper I briefly analyze four examples, two from literature to philosophy (John of the Cross and Jorge Luis Borges), and two from philosophy to literature (Wittgenstein and Nietzsche). All of them show the way Xirau finds metaphysics behind poetry, and poetry behind metaphysics.