Using the aphoristic tradition, less to establish truths than to undermine them, Joan Fuster questions the conceits contained in conventional wisdom. Final Judgements is a book of aphorisms that reveal moral and philosophical truths that are relevant to the universal human experience. Despite the seriousness of its subject matter, this book is laugh-out-loud funny, revealing that the best aphorisms strip language of its artifice and highlight its contradictions. The cumulative effect is a quintessentially Mediterranean kind of playfulness. Written between 1950 and 1960, this volume shows us Fuster at the pinnacle of his talent.
Dues visions (1964) ofereix, per primera vegada, dos textos del dietari de Joan Fuster que l’editor Joan Ballester Canals havia previst de publicar i dels quals la censura espanyola del moment denegà l’autorització. Hem cregut adient d’oferir la totalitat del text programat en primera instància com a volum individualitzat, format per dos apunts fusterians: «Maragall, burgès» i «Per una anàlisi del nacionalisme», que ha restat inèdit fins ara. Més enllà d’aquestes reflexions assagístiques, que alhora esdevenen un cert model d’anàlisi historiogràfica, el lector trobarà el to de revulsiu —incitador, motivador— amb què Fuster sempre orientava els seus posicionaments davant els fets socials que maldava per comprendre amb una actitud crítica, allunyada del tòpic convencional.
In Josep Pla, Joan Ramon Resina teases out the writer's deep-seated intellectual concerns and challenges the assumption of Pla as an anti-intellectual.
The Ghost in the Constitution offers a reflection on the political use of the concept of historical memory foregrounding the case of Spain. The book analyses the philosophical implications of the transference of the notion of memory from the individual consciousness to the collective subject and considers the conflation of epistemology with ethics. A subtheme is the origins and transmission of political violence, and its endurance in the form of symbolic violence and negationism in the post-Franco era. Some chapters treat of specific traumatic phenomena such as the bombing of Guernica and the Holocaust.
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