Weimar entre nosotros / Weimar Among Us
Non-fiction , 2004
Galaxia Gutenberg
Pages: 312
With precise prose, José María Ridao analyzes the drift of Western democracies tracing back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Guided by the conviction that describing reality is no easy endeavor, Weimar Among Us offers a timely warning against crude historical comparisons aimed at granting a veneer of legitimacy to decisions that—as evidenced by the Iraq War—ultimately reveal themselves as sordid baseness.
In the face of the world's harrowing panorama, the only path forward is to reclaim the role of reason and intelligence: that is, the necessity of questioning whether we are truly conscious of what we are doing.