El ombligo de Europa

What are the origins of good and evil? Are they perhaps in our infancy, as Yale University psychologist and professor of cognitive sciences Paul Bloom argues? How is the state of happiness achieved?. Samuel Lucas has developed the issues raised in these questions with his own, unmistakable style, ready for this book to become a reference for present and future generations. With this literary and scientific research work, Samuel Lucas offers us a look at our cultural past in order to better understand our present and where we want to direct, individually and collectively, our uncertain future, even more so when radical positions threaten to further polarize our societies: Battles of gender, sex, ideologies... violence, fanaticism and even discrimination of all kinds, even in the 21st century! Why are they produced? The author will take us by the hand with a close and colloquial style to discover all these aspects from his anthropological depth. In fact, we will delve into biology, into the same concepts of sex and violence that frequently, as Marta Cerezo and Ángeles de la Concha Muñoz maintain in their book Axes of Medieval and Renaissance Literature, "excite each other".