CARTAGENA THINKS: Francisco Jarauta presents his book 'Poetics of the Fragment'. Roman Theatre Museum

POETRY IN THOUGHT

Francisco Jarauta 

POETICS OF THE FRAGMENT

(Lancelot Collection No. 8, 2024)

Speakers: Patricio Hernández, member of the Cartagena Piensa promotion group; Javier Marín, editor; Dionisio Espejo Paredes, professor and essayist; and Belén Rosa de Gea, who will read texts from the book.
Poéticas del fragmentos is an analogy of texts by Francisco Jarauta, so full of meaning that it falls squarely within what Ezra Pound defines as 'great literature'.

Considered by the editors as the essence of a career that does not fit into traditional classifications, since their work and intellectual life have been characterized by a being in the world that exceeds any academic or institutional category.

Writings belonging to essays that are difficult to find today and where an extraordinary poetic charge can be appreciated have been rescued, presented in a new format, which emphasizes Jarauta's high creativity.

Francisco Jarauta, professor of Philosophy and lecturer at European and North American universities, patron or member of the scientific councils of museums such as IVAM, Reina Sofía, Fundación Botín, Instituto Europeo di Design, or Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo and of publications such as Iride, Experimenta, Pluriverso and Le Monde Diplomatique.

He is the author of numerous publications, such as Kierkegaard. The Limits of the Dialectic of the Individual (1975), Philosophy and its Other (1977) and Fragment and Totality: The Limits of Classicism (1988). His essays, articles and conferences are an accredited compass in the microfissures of politics, aesthetics, philosophy, art…