1982
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En el prólogo que escribiera en su día para la edición de bolsillo (aparecida diez años después de su publicación original), Fernando Savater explica los motivos que le impulsaron a escribir esta obra «sobre el amor a los libros y sobre la fuerza absorta de leer» y aclara algunos malentendidos en torno a sus propósitos.
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Fernando Savater
Author · 23 books
Born 21 June 1947, Savater is one of Spain's most popular living philosophers, as well as an essayist and celebrated author. Born in San Sebastián, he was an Ethics professor at the University of the Basque Country for over a decade. Presently he is a Philosophy professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has won several accolades for his literary work, which covers issues as diverse as contemporary ethics, politics, cinema and literary studies. In 1990, Savater and columnist and publisher, Javier Pradera, founded the magazine, Claves de Razón Práctica He defines himself as an agnostic, an anglophile and a defender of the Enlightenment in the Voltaire tradition.
