Antonio Monegal (2024). Como o ar que respiramos. O sentido da cultura. Lisboa: Objectiva. 199 pp. (Trad. de Gonçalo Neves)

Abstract

Professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Antonio Monegal has pursued an extensive academic career (doctorate from Harvard, lecturer at Cornell University) and has led the Consell de la Cultura in Barcelona. The book here under review, which was awarded (in the Spanish edition) the Premio Nacional de Ensayo in 2023, addresses the complex construct that we term culture from different perspectives throughout a Preamble and 15 chapters, to which A. adds a note of acknowledgement and a selected bibliography, which we summarise below.