Maria Zambrano and Ramon Xirau: A certain Fench, Bergson, in the suitcases of two Spanish Republican philosophers

Our attempt is to highlight the figure of Zambrano, especially as a passer of Bergsonian philosophy in Spain. We emphasize, moreover, the role of the Catalan Ramon Xirau in the dissemination of Bergsonism in Spain. Zambrano is, again, seen as a rebel, in relation to his master Ortega y Gasset, who never had been excited by Bergson. Zambrano was particularly sensitive to the musical philosophical prose of the great philosopher of the Third French Republic, as well as its mystical dimension. In both Spanish figures, Bergson allows them to "probe the mysteries of life, mysticism and poetry, while having a combative and rebellious ethics".