In their respective volumes I and II, this vol. IV collects the last six books of Zambrano with which the twenty-three that she published are completed. Four of them –Claros del Bosque (1977), De la Aurora (1986), Notes of a method (1989) and Los bienaventurados (1990) - started from a common trunk, grown between 1954-1974, which will develop the poetic reason, and from which these four books, which thus form the final tree of Zambrano's thought, will be detached from 1974 as his specific branches. This same common trunk also affects the other two books that appear in this vol. IV: Paths (1986) and Some places of painting (1989).
This volume II collects Notes of a method, Some places of the painting and The blessed ones. Notes of a method is correlative to Claros del Bosque, from which it does not detach until 1974, and as it belongs, according to Zambrano, to the positive path, here developed from an epistemological perspective and criticism of discursive reason, whose axis is the three paths of thought: that of desire, that of reason, and that of mystical vision. The blessed completes the negative path of De la Aurora, showing the blessed as the figure of possible human perfection, achieved through the stripping of the "I", and being the crown of the scale of life and of beings and of a whole series of human categories (the philosopher, the poet, the saint, the mystic, the exile), the way of the true man. All the writings on painting collected in Some places in painting are orbited around the auroral component of this thought. Of the three books in this volume II a complete critical edition has been produced; and in the same way as in De la Aurora (volume I of this vol. IV), in each one of them a series of Appendices with unpublished writings of the thinker connected with each one of them has been added.