¿Cuánta verdad necesita el hombre?

The question: "What is truth?" It is as old as Western philosophy, probably because human beings need to believe not only in concrete truths, but also in the existence of Truth. The great thinker and essayist Rüdiger Safranski explores in these pages an essential question for the history of thought and one that philosophers and writers such as Rousseau, Kleist, Nietzsche or Kafka stressed to the maximum: the great philosophical systems, the abstractions of thought, the universal laws devised through thought they can end up devouring their own creators, as the old Chinese legend warns us of the painter who ended up disappearing inside his own painting. In How Much Truth Does Man Need?, Safranski warns that great truths help human beings, but they can also lead them to the dead end of dogmatism and totalitarianism.