The philosopher and thinker José Gil will be in Loulé on the day of the Municipality, 29 May, to give a “class” and “to pursue his favorite lesson – Portugal and the Portuguese at the center of the reflection”. The initiative is part of the cycle of conferences «Before and After for Tomorrow», which integrates the series «Horizontes do Futuro» and is scheduled for the Salão Nobre of the Loulé local authority, at 21 pm.
«Ten years after the publication of his most emblematic book, with the title statement, “Portugal, today – The fear of existing”, José Gil comes to Loulé launching the opposite question: “The fear of not existing?” The controversy and wide critical debate that José Gil installed in the country in 2004, whose aftermath led the authorized Le Nouvel Observateur to integrate the Portuguese philosopher in the group of the “25 great thinkers of the world”, will certainly be updated with the next class that the philosopher comes to give to Loulé, coinciding with the Municipality Day», illustrated the City Council of Loulé.
Born in Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques), in 1939, José Gil completed a degree in Philosophy at the University of Sorbonne in 1968, the following year he did his master's degree with a thesis on Kant's morals, and, in 1982, completed his doctorate with the thesis “Body, Space and Power” (edited in 1988). Before, in 1981, he settled permanently in Portugal, teaching at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, while teaching in Paris (International College of Philosophy), Amsterdam and São Paulo.
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