Interview with Sira Abenoza: "Humans are necessarily impure"

With a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (UB), a professor in the Department of Society, Politics, and Sustainability at ESADE (URL), director of the Vicens Vives Program, and head of La Casa dels Clàssics—an institution dedicated to promoting universal classical literature—Sira Abenoza recently published No consentiràs pensaments impurs (You Shall Not Consent to Impure Thoughts). Released under Fragmenta Editorial’s Deu Manaments collection, Abenoza offers a thorough essay on the consequences—both personal and communal—of striving for purity and rejecting impurity.

We met one afternoon at the café of the Ateneu Barcelonès to discuss the book and reflect on one’s own thoughts and desires. Yet, the way reason and passion interplay calls for silence, so we moved to the Sala Borralleras, among chessboards and armchairs, for a calm and thoughtful conversation.

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Article published in El Nacional.CAT