A book to fall in love with on a small scale and be enjoyed on a large scale. Samuel lives enclosed in a bubble of loneliness, from which he only emerges to teach at the university.
In Amo, luego existo, a reformulation of Descarte’s ‘I think, therefore I am’, Manuel Cruz, Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, questions whether philosophy has paid sufficient attention to the concept of love.
How did the great thinkers love? The stoics, patiently; the vitalists, enthusiastically; the nihilists, pesimistically. For a philosopher, love is as exciting and as painful as it is for the rest of us mortals.
How did the great thinkers love? The stoics, patiently; the vitalists, enthusiastically; the nihilists, pesimistically. For a philosopher, love is as exciting and as painful as it is for the rest of us mortals.
