Javier Goma Lanzon is Doctor in Philosophy Degree in Classics and Law. He has written philosophical essays programmatic character as "The third great metaphor," "The taste and knowledge of the experience of life", "The most influential idea of ​​the century", "Idola tribes: the destruction of humanism" or "The majesty symbol "distinguished the latter with FIES XIII Journalism Award.
Some of his articles anticipated themes of this book, as "Progress and People", "The ambiguity of desire", "constitutional Feeling" or "trends of our time."
He was the organizer of Public Philosophy and Seminars held at the Juan March Foundation and editor of the Journal where the results are compiled, with titles such as, among others, "New Romanticism: Myth Today", "Transformations of art contemporary "," Literature and philosophy at the gender crisis "or" the past and its critics. "