MARTA LOPEZ GIL /ARGENTINE PHILOSOPHER

ANDANZAS FILOSOFICAS - MARTA LOPEZ GIL

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PHILOSOPHICAL ZONES. A BOOK OF FRAGMENTS, Buenos Aires, Biblos 2000.
This volume is made up of philosophical passages borrowed from the latest thinkers, and which deserve being pondered on slowly, patiently. Life as a tale, the body, memory and oblivion, power and bio-politics, the hidden life of cultural images, the female or male condition, shame and quest, the sense of otherness, the need to wager, digital society, cyberworld, are some of the issues I have termed "zones", zones for philosophical reading. Readers may create their own reading space, which is something that both contemporary large cities and technology have rendered practically impossible. Such is my hope. Readers must be aware that we must not refrain from facing this task with the much used excuse of its being "difficult". Facing what seems difficult, whatever we may be not prepared to reflect on, that is what thinking is about. Its opposite is in the news-stand round the corner. And the news-stand is closer by. A book, mine or any similar one, is far away. Painfully far, in some cases, in spite of being so close to life and its demands —unnoticed demands, unfortunately–so close that we let them go by, unaware. Life and philosophy together. That was my aim. And I also wished to offer it to young students entering the University, those not so young and those clearly elderly. Good luck!

Buy	PHILOSOPHICAL ZONES. A BOOK OF FRAGMENTS, Buenos Aires, Biblos 2000. This volume is made up of philosophical passages borrowed from the latest thinkers, and which deserve being pondered on slowly, patiently. Life as a tale, the body, memory and oblivion, power and bio-politics, the hidden life of cultural images, the female or male condition, shame and quest, the sense of otherness, the need to wager, digital society, cyberworld, are some of the issues I have termed "zones", zones for philosophical reading. Readers may create their own reading space, which is something that both contemporary large cities and technology have rendered practically impossible. Such is my hope. Readers must be aware that we must not refrain from facing this task with the much used excuse of its being "difficult". Facing what seems difficult, whatever we may be not prepared to reflect on, that is what thinking is about. Its opposite is in the news-stand round the corner. And the news-stand is closer by. A book, mine or any similar one, is far away. Painfully far, in some cases, in spite of being so close to life and its demands —unnoticed demands, unfortunately–so close that we let them go by, unaware. Life and philosophy together. That was my aim. And I also wished to offer it to young students entering the University, those not so young and those clearly elderly. Good luck!