Abstract

Zambrano's study on the modern reason, allows to penetrate into the crisis of the contemporary culture, and whose absolutist expression of freedom would be one of the reasons of Western nihilism. According to Zambrano this situation is a manifestation of a religious crisis with effects in the political, for it - it will hold - the need to exile the sacrificial character of the totalitarian power respect of the particular subject, the only way of overcoming the trap of the modern philosophy that understands life "installed in the place of the knowledge" (El hombre y lo divino)