El respeto o la mirada atenta

Using clear language, Josep M. Esquirol demonstrates that to think is to pause, to pay attention, and to tend to what lies close at hand. By conceiving the attentive gaze as the very essence of respect, this method of philosophical inquiry reveals itself to be, simultaneously, an ethics--that is, a way of relating to others and of inhabiting the world--within which concepts such as proximity, care, finitude, and humility acquire their full significance. The originality of this book by Josep Maria Esquirol lies in its definition of a philosophical path--a method, a way of orienting thought and charting a possible itinerary for a reflective life--within a world dominated by disorientation and by the reductionism stemming from technoscientific ideology.