Javier Gomá
| Javier Gomá Lanzón | |
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Javier Gomá
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| Born | 1965 Bilbao |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
Javier Gomá Lanzón (Bilbao, 1965) is a Spanish writer. Since 1993 he has been the Executive Director of the Juan March Foundation.
His writings include essays, a dramatic monologue and a philosophical work, the tetrology on exemplarity.
Javier Gomá holds a doctorate in Philosophy as well as two masters degrees, one in Classical Philology (1988) and one in Law (1992). In 1993 he passed the civil service examinations for the Spanish Council of State in first place in his cohort. He has been Executive Director of the Juan March Foundation in Madrid since 1993.
His philosophical works are part of two collections: Tetralogía de la ejemplaridad [Tetrology of exemplarity] and Filosofía mundana [Worldly philosophy]. He is also the author of Ingenuidad aprendida [Learned naïveté] and La imagen de tu vida [The image of your life]. Gomá has written a dramatic monologue, Inconsolable [Unconsolable], published in full in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo and scheduled for performance by the Centro Dramático Nacional.
His first book, Imitación y experiencia (Imitation and experience), won the 2004 Spanish National Literature Award for non-Fiction.
Gomá is a member of the boards of the Teatro Real (Madrid's opera house) and the Teatro Abadía. In 2012 and 2014 the Spanish version of Foreign Policy included him in the list of the fifty most influential Ibero-American intellectuals. He has received several awards for his books, has given talks at many Spanish and foreign institutions, and frequently works with newspapers, cultural magazines and radio.
Javier Gomá’s most important philosophical works have been published in two collections:
1.- Tetralogía de la ejemplaridad [Tetrology of exemplarity] (Taurus, 2014), the result of a philosophical project developed over a decade and made up of the following works: Imitación y experiencia [Imitation and experience] (2003), Aquiles en el gineceo [Achilles in the gynaeceum] (2007), Ejemplaridad pública [Public exemplarity] (2009) y Necesario pero imposible [Necessary but impossible] (2013). The first two works were first published by Editorial Pre-Textos, and the second two by Taurus, which also published the tetrology as a boxed set and in pocket book format.
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