On the Difficulty of Living Together

Recommended.

Roberto Esposito, author of Living Thought: The Origins and Actuality of Italian Philosophy:
In this book a major contemporary philosopher reflects on community from the point of view of our relationship with the past. In this way, memory takes on a uniquely deep political importance. But, far from being a necessary link, it is situated at a fluctuating margin that simultaneously joins and separates remembrance and forgetting. Ultimately allowing the book to remain open to unpredictable directions throughout. An important book, which analyses the complex relationship between origin and actuality.

María Pía Lara, author of The Disclosure of Politics: Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization:
On the Difficulty of Living Together poses the question of memory as a methodological framework, revealing how the concept is in need of critical scrutiny. Cruz approaches this question with clear arguments that will appeal to a wide audience, including philosophers, historians, and specialists in law, literature, and politics. The result is an important contribution that will introduce the English-speaking world to a European philosopher whose work on the concept of history deserves attention.

Alessandro Ferrara, author of The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment:
On the Difficulty of Living Together is an engaging and well written text in which Manuel Cruz—one of the most outstanding philosophers active today on the Spanish-speaking scene—takes the reader along on an original journey through memory and the way we should relate to it.