Joan-Carles Mèlich is one of the most unique voices in Catalan thought today due to the originality and rigor of his analyzes and the way he transmits them. Mèlich is a philosopher, but also a writer: he displays the same passion when developing an idea that when exposing it through the word. When he expresses his thoughts, he prefers the fragment to the system, the essay to the treatise, the prose to metaphysics. Because he values ​​the aesthetics of a text. Because it does not detach the emotion from knowledge. Because he does philosophy in dialogue with the literary tradition as much or more than with academic philosophy.

The ideas, the intuitions, the inquiries of a thinker, have their origin in the biography. Mèlich's work published to date does not contain too many self-referential elements that allow his contributions to be inserted within a certain biographical trajectory. This is what makes the genre of conversations easy. Why did Joan-Carles Mèlich study philosophy? What teachers marked it? Where does your research on finitude come from, your distinction between moral and ethical, your surprisingly positive assessment of the notion of bad conscience? How do you read? How do you write? How do you teach? In short, what do you believe in and what do you not? Why his constant criticism of metaphysics and absolutes?