Joseph Joubert was born in Montignac-le-Comte and died in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne in 1824. In 1778 he settled in Paris. A fervent advocate at the outset of the Revolution, with some of whose institutions collaborated closely, he later felt, owing to some excesses, disappointed. In 1800 he met Chateaubriand, who would be one of his best friends, like Louis de Fontanes. During the Empire, and thanks to the recommendations of this last one, it obtained a position of inspector of universities and, soon after, of adviser. According to Sainte-Beuve, he did not abandon during that period "his readings, his dreams, his talks, his staff in hand, preferring to walk ten miles than to write ten lines." To walk and postpone the work, that seems to be the motto of Joubert, to whom Maurice Blanchot dedicated one of his most praiseworthy texts: "Joubert and space," included in The Book to Come (1959), and which we only had in Spanish Until today the brief, but excellent, selection of his thoughts that in 1995 will carry out for the publishing Edhasa Carlos Pujol.