Josep Maria Esquirol, awarded National Essay Prize

Josep Maria Esquirol, professor of the Department of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy and the master degree in Bioethics and Law: Health Problems and Biotecnology of the UB.
Josep Maria Esquirol, professor of the Department of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy and the master degree in Bioethics and Law: Health Problems and Biotecnology of the UB.
(25/10/2016)

Professor Josep Maria Esquirol, from the University of Barcelona, was awarded by the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports with the 2016 National Essay Prize for his work La resistencia íntima: ensayo de una filosofía de la proximidad.

Josep Maria Esquirol, professor of the Department of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy and the master degree in Bioethics and Law: Health Problems and Biotecnology of the UB.
Josep Maria Esquirol, professor of the Department of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy and the master degree in Bioethics and Law: Health Problems and Biotecnology of the UB.
25/10/2016

Professor Josep Maria Esquirol, from the University of Barcelona, was awarded by the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports with the 2016 National Essay Prize for his work La resistencia íntima: ensayo de una filosofía de la proximidad.

The jury awarded this work for "meditating, directly and personally, about life itself helping people to live it with lucidity and conscience. A good example of philosophy, able to question any kind of reader".

Josep Maria Esquirol teaches at the Department of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy and in the master degree of Bioethics and Law: Health Problems and Biotechnology of the UB, and is director of APORIA, Research Group on Contemporary Philosophy, Ethics and Politics. He is also the author of several works in the field of political philosophy: DʼEuropa als homes (1992), Tres ensayos de filosofía política (1996), La frivolidad política del final de la historia (1998) i Què és el personalisme? (2001), and has written about distinguished contemporary philosophers, such as Husserl, Heidegger, Lévinas, Arendt, Strauss, Ricoeur and Patočka. Esquirol's work, now awarded, is a reflection on the daily nature and human condition. This is the third volume in the essay line entitled Filosofia de la proximitat, which started with El respeto o la mirada atenta (2007) and El respirar dels dies (2009).

 

An interview with Josep M. Esquirol can be read here.