Los límites del mundo

The Limits of the World is an essential book for understanding the work of Eugenio Trías, undoubtedly one of the most important Spanish philosophers of the 20th and early 21st centuries and the only Spanish thinker to have received the Friedrich Nietzsche International Prize, awarded for a philosopher's lifetime achievement. In it, he first presented what would later become the central theme of his thought: the analysis of the human condition as a boundary. Human beings are seen as inhabitants of the boundary, as beings of the limit. Access to this idea is undertaken through a redefinition of the modern concept of the subject. The book includes an analysis of Kant's categorical imperative, which Trías transforms into a Pindaric one ('Become what you are, limit and boundary of the world'); an original approach to Wittgenstein; and a brilliant dialogue established between metaphysics and the great art of our time through an analysis of Marcel Duchamp's 'Large Glass'. And finally, the confrontation with Heidegger's thought are the main elements the author uses to articulate the fascinating philosophical adventure of presenting humanity in its most tragic dimension, the one that confronts it with its true essence, and simultaneously defining truth as the transparency of the being of the limit. We are the limits of the world, permanent inhabitants of a hinge that both separates and articulates world and mystery.