by Julio Caro Baroja · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472231078
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«Palabra, sombra equívoca» is a collection of essays by Julio Caro Baroja, published by Tusquets Editores S.A. in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Julio Caro Baroja starts from Democritus's saying that the word is the shadow of the act to analyze the siege that the word, changing and always insufficient, has suffered in all times. It addresses concepts such as free will, pessimism, misoneism, dogmatism, relativism and tradition, clearing up ambiguities.
Fifth title in the Essay collection from Tusquets Editores. First edition published in May 1989 in Barcelona.
Work aimed at readers of essays and human sciences, particularly those interested in anthropology and thought.
Julio Caro Baroja was a Spanish anthropologist, historian, linguist and essayist. He was known for his special interest in Basque culture, Basque history and Basque society. Of Basque ancestry, he was the nephew of the renowned writer Pio Baroja and his brother, painter, writer and engraver Ricardo Baroja. He is buried in the family plot of the cemetery of Bera, Navarre, near their home, Itzea.
