Eduardo Lourenço: entre poesia e filosofia

Abstract

The longevity of Eduardo Lourenço has a fruitful parallel in the extent and multitude of ramifications of his work, in iteself extensive as several lives. It is no exaggeration to describe it as such, given the 13 volumes that his Complete Works already comprise, collected in large anthological tomes published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation since 2011, alongside the many individual volumes of another series of Complete Works, published by Gradiva Editores. And much remains to be collected, especially if we think of unpublished works scattered throughout the press, or the myriad of interviews he gave. This vast body of work constitutes a stimulating laboratory of rich and unusual readings on everything that interests human mind, in particular the always fascinating adventures in exploring the links between philosophy and poetry, a dialogue that has run through philosophy since its origins in Greece, where philosophy was born as poetry, and which poetry has repaid by continuing to permeate and proliferate in philosophical concerns, despite Plato's influential political diatribe against poetry. Eduardo Lourenço allowed himself to be seduced by the mysteries of this twinning, which inspired him so much, thus constituting, as will be seen in this volume, a gateway to his thinking. A thought that declined to offer itself as a system, preferring the forms of dialogue, conference, interpellation, debate, and above all, the essay.

Keywords: Eduardo Lourenço; poetry, philosophy; essay