Otherness, Poetics and Philosophy in the work of Antonio Machado

Antonio Machados work shows a well-known thematic breath that is manifest, besides its poetical legacy, besides in its poetical legacy, in its contributions to Philosophy. This article tries to approach his figure from the conjunction between Poetics and Philosophy, based on a fundamental concept in his work: the otherness. As a result of the breaking of modern reason, Cartesian solipsism was called into question. Is in this time, the late 19th Century, a trend towards the otherness or recognition of the other arises in Europe as in Spain, and we see it in the work of Machado, especially in his character Juan de Mairena, and also in others authors of 98 ' s generation.