The author of the essays collected in this volume presents himself as “a Mexican university professor professionally dedicated to philosophy and therefore dedicated to teaching and slow and profound academic research.”

He warns us that these texts “try to recover and openly exercise the practice of philosophizing as an insertion into one's own circumstance.” These are, he adds, “small argumentative pieces that seek to establish positions and intervene forcefully in the space of philosophies around topics such as the practices of philosophy itself, the uncomfortable – and even impossible – place of the individual in history; the contemporary power of images; multilingualism as a living experience; the specters and potentialities of Marxism in our time; the dilemmas of multiculturalism; "the link between Latin American independence and reflections on the contemporary rebellion of man."

For Gerardo de la Fuente, “philosophy is said in many ways. But whatever the form of its appearance, its relevance consists in shaking us, in offering us new perspectives to live, interpret and transform our present.” And he concludes with the hope that “the articles collected in this book will offer readers new avenues of thought to radically understand the issue of diversity.”