Elogio de la filosofía

To say philosophy is for Gabriel Albiac to say a game, a happy indolence or a wise and skeptical melancholy. It is also loneliness and, sometimes, almost the only thing that can give us company. His In Praise of Philosophy takes a fascinating and very personal journey through the fundamental questions we have always asked ourselves. His pages tell us about existence and its meaning, time and death, freedom, beauty or truth in a unique, lyrical and cultured style, pregnant with literary and artistic references. On its pages, the words and ideas of classical wisdom in Heraclitus, Plato or Marcus Aurelius parade; of Saint Paul and the Bible; from La Boétie, Montaigne, Pascal or Spinoza; of poets like Quevedo, John Keats or W. H. Auden; and works like The Iliad or the Christ of Grünewald. In this journey there is no program or decalogue, there are no closed answers, only a beautiful "consolation of flight" and a "struggle to know" that brings us closer to what we call freedom.