Book Presentation: “Promesas incumplidas. Una historia política de las pasiones” ("Unkept Promises. A politic history of passion").
“Unkept Promises” tells the story of the ambition linked with the promise of equality and disillusion that Romanticism brought. This work explores the deepest emotions related to rivalry, but also fraternity, patriotism, compassion and friendship Sources checked to write this book are biographical and autobiographical texts, Treatises of Medicine, Moral Philosophy and Politics and what we know today as psychiatry. Javier Moscoso is a lecturer and researcher in History and Science Philosophy from the “Instituto de Filosofía del CSIC” (CSIC Institute for Philosophy.) He is a PhD in Philosophy and his professional voyage has lead him to several institutions like the Centre Alexandre Koyré in Paris, the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (where he did research for 4 years), to the Harvard Department of the History of Science and to the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has written several monographs and publications in specialised journals like “Pain: A Cultural History” (2011).
Hosted by: Enric Novella, from the Institute “López Piñero” for the History of Medicine and Science (IHMC).
Date 17 october 2018 at 18:00 to 19:30. Wednesday.
Place
Conference room of the Palau de Cerveró (Plaza Cisneros, 4). 46003 València.
IHMC.
