Miguel de Unamuno and His Persistence against the Spirit of Dissolution and Philosophy of Somnambula in 1904 Essay. Unamuno, Miguel de, ¡Plenitud de plenitudes y todo plenitud!, Trans. into Russian by Alexandr S. Andryushin and Ilya N. Zakharov

This article presents an introduction to the translation of the essay “The Fullness of Fullness and All the Fullness” (1904) by the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno. The essay starts with epigraph from “Ecclesiastes”: “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity”, and these are the words Unamuno opposes with his formula which echos throughout all this work from the very beginning: he dares to resist the repeatedly approaching Spirit of Dissolution with the invocation of the Spirit of Creation and with the formula of “fullness of the fullness and all the fullness”. In this introductory article a range of issues significant for Una­muno’s works is briefly outlined along with the contents of the essay. Also the main themes, which are in common for Unamuno’s major philosophical works “The Tragic Sense of Life”, “The Agony of Christianity” and “The Life of Don Quijote y Sancho” and for this essay, are indicated. Among these themes there are those of death and immortality, the theme of God, religion, faith and authentic existence. Besides it, in this essay there also the question is posed which will be repeated by Unamuno in “The Tragic Sense of Life” – and it is, why do we love our neighbors so little. The answer is also given and it deals with the problem of faith and authentic existence as well.