Institut d'Humanitats
What is music?
Second lecture
Renowned viola da gamba player, orchestra conductor and musicologist Jordi Savall opens the new course at the Institut d'Humanitats with two one-off lessons about the life-giving power of music.
What is music?
First lecture
Renowned viola da gamba player, orchestra conductor and musicologist Jordi Savall opens the new course at the Institut d'Humanitats with two one-off lessons about the life-giving power of music.
Nuccio Ordine
In defence of the useless
Is there such a thing as useful and useless knowledge? Does it make sense to wonder what philosophy is good for? How has the logic of profit saturated into the experience of knowledge? At a time when the teaching of philosophy, ethics and music have been almost completely wiped out of the syllabus and when traditional sites of education are going through radical and oftentimes contradictory changes, the philosopher and lecturer in literature Nuccio Ordine makes his claim for the importance of humanistic knowledge.
Flexo. Revolution 2/6
Mercè Ibarz reads "El eco de los pasos" by Joan Garcia Oliver
Flexo is a programme of shared readings. Each course we invite six thinkers from different areas will to read with us six works they consider crucial to reflect about a common idea. This year, "Revolution".
