Inconsolable
Javier Gomá Lanzón (Bilbao, 1965), writer, philosopher and playwright, will present his monologue “Inconsolable”. His main philosophical work is the Tetralogy of exemplarity. It is composed of Imitation and Experience, Achilles in the Gynaeum, Public Exemplarity and Necessary but Impossible, published between 2003 and 2013. The last and definitive vision of the same theme is contained in the book Universal concreto. Method, Ontology, Pragmatics and Poetics of Exemplarity, published in 2023. He is also the author of the essays Ingenuity Learned (2011), Worldly Philosophy (2016), The Image of Your Life (2017) and Dignity (2019). A graduate in Classical Philology and Law, Doctor of Philosophy and Counsel to the Council of State (on leave of absence), he is currently director of the Juan March Foundation and the Chair of Exemplarity/CUNEF University. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Committee of the Teatro Real de Madrid, chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Fundación Ortega-Marañón and winner of the National Essay Award. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)