Francisco Jarauta
(Zaragoza, 1941). Full professor of philosophy at the University of Murcia. He has pursued studies in history, art history, and philosophy at the Universities of Valencia, Rome, Münster, Berlin, and Paris. As a visiting professor at European and American universities, his work is particularly oriented towards the history of ideas, philosophy of culture, aesthetics, and art theory. Among his numerous publications, we can mention “Philosophy and its Other” (1977), “Fragment and Totality: The Limits of Classicism” (1988), and “The Crisis of Reason” (1985). Editor of Pontormo, L.B. Alberti, J. Ruskin, S. Mallarmé, and Paul Celan, among others. Director of the Arquilectura collection. He has served as vice president of the Board of Trustees of the MNCARS, has been part of the advisory committees of the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, and currently of the Fundación Botín. He has curated exhibitions such as “Radical Architecture” (2002), “Microtopias, Art and Architecture” (2003), “Matisse and the Alhambra” (2010), “The Thread of Ariadne. Readers, Navigators” (2012), and “Disturbed Nature” (2023), among others. He participates in the Geo-philosophy of Europe group and in Le Monde Diplomatique. He is the coordinator of the Tánger Group.