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Founder and Director of the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, he has a degree in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He taught Contemporary Philosophy at UAB (1975 – 1990). He was Director of the Institute of Humanities (1986 - 1989), founder-director of the Edicions 62 collection “Philosophical Texts” and a founder of the cultural review Saber (1980). He is member of the Editorial Committee of the newspaper El País, where he writes regularly, and also works with the radio channel SER. He has published numerous books, noteworthy among which are Después de la pasión política (Alter the Political Passion – Taurus, Madrid 1999) and Del tiempo condensado (On Condensed Time – Random House Mondadori, Barcelona, 2003).