Spinoza en el Parque México

An intellectual biography is not the biography of private life. It is the story of a training in which many factors, many presences and scenarios intervene: schools, experiences, trips and, above all, readings. Intellectual life follows the trajectory of ideas over time, of ideas embodied in a person and, fundamentally, in the dialogue that has been maintained with tutelary figures, teachers, colleagues, friends. This is how an intellectual biography is woven: talking with grandparents, mentors, companions of so many battles, admired authors. Conversing in the cafe more than in the classroom. And conversing with the books. Fascinated by the lives of so many eminent Mexicans and Latin Americans, by understanding and narrating them, Enrique Krauze had not approached his own work as a historian, editor, essayist and critic of power. Until now. Based on a series of conversations with José María Lassalle, the author offers his most intimate and revealing book: Spinoza in Parque México.