Teoría del aforismo

From Confucius to Twitter, from Buddha to the Bible or from Heraclitus to Nietzsche, aphorisms (short sentences of a philosophical nature) constitute a constant in the history of the human being. Usually presented as literary fragments, they allow the initiation of new lines of thought and offer new horizons of interpretation, which is why they have often served as precedents, supports or obstacles to great philosophical systems. How did they develop? How have religious and political movements emerged from the enigmatic sayings of their leaders? Why do some of the most acclaimed modern philosophers choose them when formulating their most complex ideas? This book tries to answer these and other questions from an approach to the aphorism in different cultures, such as those of ancient China and Greece, the tradition of biblical authors, the European Renaissance or the western philosophy of the 19th century.