El último verano

Diego Garrocho introduces into his texts, with dazzling agility and depth, a philosophical look that is very rare in the panorama of journalism in Spain. Last Summer is a careful and balanced selection of his best columns and short essays, which avoids the conjunctural and addresses life and the tension between the past and the future, with an intellectual approach but not without nostalgia and intimacy. The book condenses the author's convictions, defends culture as the only instrument to repair the world, reflects on talent and invokes figures such as Tennessee Williams, Ferlosio, Leopardi, Aristotle or Plato. Throughout history, numerous philosophers and thinkers have found in short essays and articles an ideal way to convey their ideas so that, without losing the conceptual rigor or strength of their theses, they could reach a wide audience. . This book is part of that tradition, and shows that Philosophy also has the ability to address problems in a direct and effective way. Last Summer, which can be read in a generational key, offers a sensitive and original perspective on the world, and is a wonderful example of the work in the press that, for some years, Diego Garrocho has combined with his academic work.