Javier Gomá in conversation with Helena de Bertodano

Philosopher Javier Gomá is clear: society must continue to be scandalised by what it considers reprehensible, because that is how it keeps exemplarity alive. This allows the ideal of human dignity to be upheld and acts as a driving force for social progress. To achieve this, according to Gomá, we must work towards a more egalitarian exemplarity that accepts more vulgar cultural parameters—typical of our times—without renouncing certain touches of past elitism.

He will be interviewed by Helena de Bertodano, a journalist specialising in interviews for publications such as The Times, The Telegraph and The Observer. She has interviewed more than 1,000 people over the last 25 years, including the Dalai Lama, Meryl Streep, George Soros, Ringo Starr, Umberto Eco, Kurt Vonnegut and Mario Vargas Llosa.

Event in Spanish

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