Il paradosso della libertà, a book of Elena Laurenzi, researcher from the Seminari Filosofia i Gènere-ADHUC, has just been published. The book analyses the importance that politics had in the thought of María Zambrano.
The relation with politics remains through all Zambrano's philosophy and biography. She said that her youth was “the politics”, in reference to her engagement with the Republic and her participation in the civil war. She didn't stop thinking about politics through her long exile, nor did she after her return to Spain. The volume follows the steps of this thought by showing a philosophical path characterized by the attitude of thinking in the heart of one’s own time. In a historical level, it rebuilds the political circumstances and the tradition which Zambrano faced. In a theoretical level, it focuses on some of the fundamental contributions that Zambrano’s work gives to the nowadays discussion about the crisis and the antinomy of politics: freedom, war, person, community, utopia, imagination, mercy, silence, sexual difference.
