by Antonio Escohotado · ESPASA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423977659
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«Retrato del libertino» is the philosophical essay by Antonio Escohotado, published by Espasa in paperback (162 pages, in Spanish).
From the modalities of carnal love and its justifications, Escohotado sketches a contemporary theory of health through the diary of an anonymous Victorian. He reviews passions such as lust, gambling or drunkenness, without forgetting old age and death, and proposes assuming the body as the immediacy of the spirit to rethink everyday beauty.
The book was published in 1997, belongs to the Espasa hoy collection and is classified in the Philosophy category.
For curious and free souls; the style, more accessible than in other works by Escohotado, makes it a good gateway to the author's thought.
Antonio Escohotado Espinosa, commonly called Antonio Escohotado, was a Spanish philosopher, jurist, essayist and university professor. His life's work primarily focused on law, philosophy and sociology, yet extended to many other disciplines. Escohotado gained public renown for his research on drugs and for his well-known anti-prohibitionist positions. One of his best known works is The General History of Drugs. The leitmotif of his work is, in the same way, an affirmation of freedom as an antidote to fear or the constraints that push the human being towards all kinds of servitude. His thought fits into the framework of libertarian liberalism.
