Javier Gomá, director of the Fundación Juan March, writer, PhD in Philosophy, graduated in Classical Philology and Law, will give the lecture ‘Can the modern subject kneel again?’ The event will be held the 27 November at 18:30 in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences (avenida Blasco Ibáñez, 30).
The session will be presented by professor Adela Cortina, Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the University of Valencia. Admission will be free until full capacity.
Javier Gomá has a PhD in Philosophy, and is a graduated in Classical Philosophy and Law. From 2003, he is the director of the Fundación Juan March. In 2004, he won the National Essay Prize for his book ‘Imitación y experiencia’ (‘Imitation and experience’) that, together with ‘Aquiles en el gineceo’ (‘Achilles in the gineceo) (2007) and ‘Ejemplaridad pública’ (‘Public exemplariness’) (2009), form the trilogy dedicate to the experience of life.
In this trilogy is the key for exemplariness, which will also be the point of connexion in his last book ‘Necesario, pero imposible’ (‘Necessary, but impossible’) (Taurus, 2013), in which Gomá poses one of the recurring questions in Eastern and Western philosophy, the third of the Kantian questions “what are we allowed to expect?” The lecture will keep a close relationship with this latest book.
In the section ‘Todo a mil’ at Babelia, cultural supplement of El País, Javier Gomá publishes every three weeks a short philosophical essay. Following Ortega’s tradition, he writes regularly in newspapers, magazines and supplements, and collaborates in Radio Nacional de España.
In 2012 the magazine ‘Foreign Policy’ (in Spanish) included him in the list of the fifty most influential Latin American intellectuals.
Last update: 26 de november de 2013 10:40.
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