Intimate Resistance. Essay of a Philosophy of Proximity, Esquirol, Josep María 2015 Acantilado, Barcelona

Abstract

Intimate resistance. Essay of a philosophy of proximity offers a body of reflections that allows us to refine the "view" on the assumptions and scope of the paradigm that is now the subject of this issue of Xihmai: "Civic culture". In the pages of the text, the demand to rediscover the “free sensibility” of zoon politikon is palpable. Intimate resistance therefore invites us to enter the species with no other intention than to go to meet the self, the own of each one, in its constant forging: elevation of identity from its community characterization, conquest of identity against its insertion already given in the "there". It is the task of each individual to know himself from the others. And it cannot be otherwise: each individual does not signify or distinguish himself as such only for himself. In the historical current of this world, each individual has been a "voice" in the conscience of others. Even in the conscience of the most tyrant there was no absence of those "voices"; He listened to them to ignore them. And when Socrates gives way to "ethical truth" with his maxim Know Thyself! What becomes clear is that, in such an exercise, everyone has to give voice to others, first in the privacy of their conscience, then dialogue will come in the forum, in the public square, in assemblies, in the classroom, in the "coffee". So that, in each of these spaces, in which each one expresses "something of himself", the results of the dialogue that each one undertook before with the "voices" of his conscience are revealed, to a large extent.