The canon of contemporary Spanish thought, marked by figures of the stature of Miguel de Unamuno, José Ortega y Gasset, and Ramiro de Maeztu, with their often grandiloquent reflections on national identity, institutional logic, and the political status of the people, conceals an undercurrent. A “silent music” that the philosopher Nuria Sánchez Madrid In this portrait, he lucidly traces the flourishing social thought that stirred the Spanish intellectual landscape between the last third of the 19th century and the first of the 20th, and in which the names of women such as Concepción Arenal, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Rosalía de Castro, María Zambrano, Luisa Carnés or Rosa Chacel stand out.

Silent Music: Social Thought in the Spanish Silver Age (1868-1936) It offers a new perspective on this historical period, tracing a path that, through different works and authors, sheds light on topics of full relevance such as the existential centrality of pain, the conceptual analysis of social suffering and popular resistance to oppression, the different models of national articulation, the distribution of epistemic recognition granted to elites and masses, and the formation of a plural feminism in Spain at the hands of the first women consciously dissident from the patriarchal framework of their time.  

The book consists of a prologue, written by José Luis Villacañas, and an epilogue by Germán Cano Cuenca.