Cosas que he aprendido de gente interesante

Philosophy, politics and religion · Ediciones Deusto, 2025

This book reclaims the legacy of Western civilization and seeks to rescue it from the nihilism that grips us. Short chapters running from the emotivism that now pervades everything to the lukewarmness of the center-right, from empathy as an alibi to the impoverishment of the religious message: the history of thought put to work on some of the thorniest arguments of our time. Published in Spanish.

352 pages · €20.95 · ISBN 978-84-234-3923-2 · also as an e-book

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Three works on various philosophical questions: the first two shorter, the last more technical. All in Spanish. The first can be read in an afternoon.

Sapere aude, o ¿cabe llamarnos aún ilustrados?

Lección inaugural del curso 2018-2019 · Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes, 2018

57 pages · €14.99 · e-book €3 · ISBN 978-84-946934-6-5

From the motto “dare to know,” in Horace and Kant, to the ten ills that threaten that endeavour today: emotivism, anti-intellectualism, pseudosciences, conspiracy thinking, disinformation, post-truth, bigotry, infantilism, unwarranted pessimism and general stupidization. Plus a proposal for dealing with them.

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Reglas

Un ensayo de introducción a la hermenéutica de manos de Wittgenstein y Sherlock Holmes · Con prólogo de Mario Perniola · Ediciones Ápeiron, 2017

126 pages · €14, postage included · ISBN 978-84-16996-95-7

Why do we say that the exception proves the rule, when it seems it ought to refute it? Starting from that simple question, already found in Cicero and Leibniz, the book puts forward the idea that, to understand our own time, we must look at how Marx, Nietzsche and Freud attacked nothing less than the distinction between rules and exceptions. The book closes with a proposal for getting out of this predicament, and with that goal in mind turns to Wittgenstein, to hermeneutic philosophy and to a more reasonable detective than Sherlock Holmes: Chesterton’s Father Brown.

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Normatividad, interpretación y praxis

Wittgenstein en un giro hermenéutico-nihilista · Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes, 2014

€14.99 on limited-edition CD · €6.44 as an e-book · ISBN 978-84-941760-7-4

How do some human beings manage to impose rules on others, and to make them work? The problem of normativity, approached through the later Wittgenstein (the one who wrote after 1929) and the ethical and political consequences that follow, in dialogue with Gianni Vattimo’s hermeneutic nihilism. This is my doctoral thesis, turned into a book.

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Cosas que he aprendido de gente interesante978-84-234-3923-2 · Deusto, 2025

Sapere aude, o ¿cabe llamarnos aún ilustrados?978-84-946934-6-5 · UEMC, 2018

Reglas978-84-16996-95-7 · Ápeiron, 2017

Normatividad, interpretación y praxis978-84-941760-7-4 · UEMC, 2014

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