On the back cover of the first edition of this book, published in 1969, it was announced that we were dealing with a text that "gave an answer that was both rigorous and controversial to the problem of the nature of philosophical discourse." It was the first work by Eugenio Trías, who at 26 years of age championed the philosophy of a new generation.
Hailed the book by critics as an extraordinary event in the philosophical and cultural field of our country, the three treatises that compose it set out to enable the structuralist method in the domain of philosophy and its history. And for many, they fostered an opening to the irrational or playful in which the imminence of "neonietzscheanism" was already announced, while, for the first time in a long time, Nietzsche's thought was taken into consideration in praiseworthy terms.
«Philosophy and its shadow is probably one of my best books since it hatched with joviality and strength, without the heavy burden that negative experiences leave us with. He did not inherit any karma. It was an impertinent, spirited book, full of sharpness and vigor, written in a poignant style that even now provokes and assails me with its surprising irony and acid and subversive humor. "
Eugenio Trías