Sobre la sabiduría

What does the word wisdom mean today? Erased by the vertigo of our time, is it something more than an old-fashioned, blurred concept, alien in practice to everyday use? In this serene and beautiful book, Eugenio Borgna, psychiatrist and humanist, gently leads us to immerse ourselves in this concept and shows it to us in all its splendor. Wisdom (he tells us) continues to be necessary among many other things "to know and heal human suffering in its various manifestations." But wisdom also consists in numerous attitudes, in numerous experiences (not the least of them descending into our own abysses) that he reels throughout these pages in the company of such wise and indisputable figures as Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Rilke, Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt...