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If there is an essence of Modern Spanish philosophy, the debate which raged between Miguel de Unamuno and José Ortega y Gasset provoked each thinker to realize that essence in profoundly divergent ways. And yet, what connects the two figures is a shared fascination with the rigorous investigation of their social reality and the mystery of the self. This course will examine the works and lives of Unamuno and Ortega y Gasset and, with the aid of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, strive to understand their confrontation with eternity and mortality.