Some specialists will talk in full detail on some of the most relevant aspects of Fuster’s (Sueca, 1922-1992) work in the conference, which is coordinated by University’s Professor Tobies Grimaltos.

According to Ferran Carbó, Chair’s director, “Joan Fuster was a reference in terms of writing by vocation since he knew how to turn a way of expressing his thoughts through writing into his profession. This hard effort lead to the publication of dozens of books, hundreds of newspaper articles over 30 years, some preserved diary notes, thousands of letters and worksheets…”

The conference is devoted to the study, review and discussion of some particular aspects of Fuster’s work, his personality and those fields in which he focused his philosophy. Professor Carbó explains that “according to C.S. Pierce, the father of pragmatism, doubting is the first step to research, to inquiry. Fuster is a real example of this. Even though his proclaimed great disdain for philosophy –which was a simple disdain for a certain type of abstruse and dogmatic metaphysics–, Fuster was a thinker, a far-reaching inquirer in regular practice. Whereas Hegel was not, Montaigne was. Fuster’s sensible scepticism, his hunger for both finding and self-finding, pushed him stubbornly into think and overthink everything. Whereas philosophy was not his cup of tea, thinking was – and his essays prove it.”