Josep Ramoneda

Journalist, philosopher and writer. He is the director of the humanities and economics magazine La Maleta de Portbou and of the Escola Europea d’Humanitats. He regularly collaborates with the newspaper El País, Cadena Ser and the Catalan newspaper Ara . He is director of various essay collections and president of Edicions 62. He was director of the Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture (CCCB) between 1989 and 2011, president of the Institut de la Recherche et de l'Innovation (IRI) in Paris (2009 - 2014), director of the Barcelona Institute of Humanities (1986-1989), contributor to La Vanguardia (1980-1996) and professor of contemporary philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1975-1990). He has published numerous books, including Apologia del present. Assaigs de fi de segle (Edicions 62, 1989), Después de la pasión política (Taurus, 1999), Del tiempo condensado. Globalización, inmigración, terrorismo, cultura (Debolsillo, 2003), Contra la indiferencia. Apología de la Ilustración (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2010), La izquierda necesaria (RBA Libros, 2012) and the collective book Existential Utopia (Nueva York, 2012).  and the collective book Existential Utopia (New York, 2012) . He has received the Ciutat de Barcelona award for international projection (2012) and the National Culture Award from the Generalitat de Catalunya (2013).