Flâneur, Ghost, and Restlessness
Baudelaire, Pessoa, and Benjamin: flâneur, spleen, and ironic criticism as paratexts of modernity and the split self.
Essays
Loose Pages
I Am Maximilien Robespierre, They Call Me Incorruptible
An introspective account where Robespierre justifies his rise and fall by linking the obsessive pursuit of republican virtue to the inevitable necessity of the Terror.
Loose Pages
What shouldn’t happen happens in Compostela and Teniente Rey
Carlos Luis changes his routine one morning and an accident leads him to meditate, from the quiet of the hospital, on chance, causality, and the inevitability of events.
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My Twenty Minutes with Umberto Eco
Intellectual affinities in a conversation about the philosopher Nelson Goodman.
Book Reviews
A Blow Against Yuval Noah Harari’s Sanctimonious Presentism in ‘Sapiens’
Prudish presentism, sensationalist simplifications, and biological reductionism in historical and evolutionary interpretations.
Essays
The History of Slavery and the Slavery of History (3 and final)
Sepúlveda and De las Casas debated in Valladolid the justice of the war against the Indians, contrasting humanistic and theological views on humanity and conquest.
Essays
The History of Slavery and the Slavery of History (2)
Second part of a study on the morality of slavery and the limits of the historical perspective.
Essays
The History of Slavery and the Slavery of History (1)
Study on the morality of slavery and the limits of historical perspective.
Loose Pages
Only God is Enough
In 1643, while Louis XIV plays and Torricelli presents the barometer, eight libertines in Paris debate faith, reason, and heresy in a lively salon.