by Fernando Savater · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483106723
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«Contra las patrias» is the essay by Fernando Savater, published by Maxi-Tusquets in 2000, in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
In this collection of essays, Fernando Savater criticizes the collectivization of violence, prefabricated national identities and the use of culture as a justification of the state. The author defends the freedom of languages, exile, uprootedness, federalism, antimilitarism and cosmopolitanism, and dwells especially on the problem of nationalities and nationalisms in Spain, starting with Spanish nationalism.
Work expanded and revised by the author, with a new prologue, from an edition first published in 1984.
Fernando Fernández-Savater Martín is a Spanish philosopher, essayist and author.
