Gustavo Bueno, materializando la filosofía

"To think is to think against someone." Gustavo Bueno Martínez A few months before his death, Gustavo Bueno Martínez (1924-2016) insisted on the need to point his "dialectical cannons" against scientific fundamentalism. By this he wanted to show that science is not an absolute oracle, but a limited system that cannot explain all of reality. This book brings together a clear and accessible vision of the legacy of Bueno and the Oviedo School of Philosophy, which is still alive and active in Spain and beyond. From the coordinates of Philosophical Materialism, his analyses have dismantled many of the great myths of our time: the idea of Spain, Democracy, Religion, Science, Culture, and even Happiness. As Bueno himself recalled, philosophers must "crush" in order to understand and, from those ashes, generate new thought. Those who knew him highlight the strength and originality of his thinking. Fernando Lázaro Carreter confessed that he learned from him the art of arguing and uncovering falsehoods. Gonzalo Torrente Ballester defined him as a philosopher capable of combining "clarity and depth." Antonio Escohotado pointed out that reading him is "delving into rigorous thinking and extraordinary lucidity." For Javier Sádaba, his Materialismo Filosófico (Philosophical Materialism) constitutes "an essential contribution." And Pedro Insua remembers him as a "teacher in the fullest sense of the word, with an indelible mark on Spanish philosophy."