Institut Ramon LLull

In these two brief hundred-page essays, The Experience of Loss and The Condition of Vulnerability, our author focuses on the crux of his reflection: literary philosophy, an antimetaphysical proposal that eschews absolutisms and embraces the fact of being shelterless. He explores the finiteness of human beings – their elegiac condition – and their ability – starting out from the precarity of inhabiting a body – to generate an answer to existence. Here’s a philosophy inspired by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, as well as post-structuralist thinkers (Foucault, Levinas, Derrida, Butler) and the grand corpus of Western writing (from Sophocles to Virginia Woolf.)

This line of questioning is undertaken with sensitivity, pays close attention to language and its poetic dimension, advances with a complicit tone, and brings together an evocative chorus of voices. Throughout these two books, our author applies this unsystematic system of thinking to two vital and formative experiences: grief – the loss of a loved-one – and vulnerability – an existential condition and origin of an entire branch of ethics.