26 February 2017

La Salle’s professor and philosopher Josep Maria Esquirol has won the National Essay Prize 2016

Josep Maria Esquirol is professor of La Salle’s Master in Thought and Creativity and has been honored for his work The intimate resistance: Test of a philosophy of proximity.

The jury awarded the work for “meditating, in a direct and personal way, on helping live life with more clarity and awareness. A good example of high style philosophy capable of appealing to any kind of reader.”

The prize is endowed with 20,000 euros and is awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports. Esquirol describes The intimate resistance as an experience, typical of the region of proximity, as the movement consisting in not to get carried away and keeping the disintegrating forces of reality. Basically the essay reflects on the human condition and how the concern and care of oneself can be a good for those around us.

Esquirol has published more than 70 papers and has written ten books among which Self and others, Respect or the watchful eye,Breathing Days and Contemporary and technical philosophers.

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