Abstract

The article aims to probe the relationship between the figure of the poet and the city starting from the different interpretations that María Zambrano and Eugenio Trías give of the so-called “Platonic condemnation”. Based on these readings, we intend to focus not only on the frequent distortion of certain famous passages in the Republic, but also on the historical-philosophical articulation between two moments, that of the poet’s exile and his return to the city. This is an analysis whose purpose is twofold, since if on the one hand it allows us to reflect on a philosophical question of necessary importance in order to heal ancient fractures in thought, on the other it serves as a lens through which to reveal crucial aspects of the philosophical proposals of the two Spanish authors: the poetic nature of reason in Zambrano’s reflection and the theme of the city as one of the main theoretic axes of Trías’ thought.