María Zambrano in front of the Ruins of the City

Abstract

This article purports to elucidate the meaning of the city, in the political literature of theSpanish philosopher María Zambrano in the context of modern political philosophy. The meanings about the different roles played by the city in the philosophy of Zambrano, shows a theory that points to its origin, as a place of revelation and human care, and its destruction by an instrumental reason that prepares people to be removed if history demands it. The city, in hands of a sovereign power that rules under the logic of domination and control, is uninhabitable. Zambrano proposes the idea of a new city whose heart is conformed by the person and democracy, so that it could allow for reappearance of the city as a creation, as a space of projection and care of the freedom of every of its habitants.