José María Valverde
José María Valverde (Valencia de Alcántara, 1926 - Barcelona, 1996) was a philosopher, poet, literary critic, essayist, historian of ideas and translator, Valverde studied philosophy at the University of Madrid. In 1956 he obtained the chair of Aesthetics at the University of Barcelona, which he resigned in 1965 in solidarity with professors Agustín García Calvo, Enrique Tierno Galván and José Luis Aranguren, expelled from the University of Madrid by the academic authorities of the Regime. In 1977 he returned to Barcelona and resumed his position at the university. In 1983 he received the Cross of Sant Jordi and in 1985 the Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise.
Programme
Ateneu Barcelonès, 16-17 December 2021
(Click here to download the programme in pdf format)
Thursday, December 16th
- Inauguration of the Symposium, with lvet Zwatrzko (speaker of the Ateneu Barcelonès literature section), Joan Vergés Gifra (Director of the Ferrater Mora Chair), Vicenç Villatoro (Director of Memorial Democràtic) and Joaquim Trias (Sponsor of the Ferrater Mora Chair)
- De la lectura a la poesia: l’amistat de José María Valverde i Gabriel Ferrater, byJordi Amat (Escritor)
- José María Valverde y el uso del lenguaje, by Salvador Oliva (Filólogo)
- De Hombre de Dios a Ser de palabra. El pensamiento de José María Valverde a través de su poesía, by Juan Carlos Pueo Domínguez (Universidad de Zaragoza)
- L’espiritualitat de José María Valverde. Kierkegaard al rerefons, by Francesc Torralba (Universitat Ramon Llull)
- Recital of José María Valverde’s poems, by Sílvia Bel. Selection and commentary by Narcís Comadira
Friday, December 17th
- Un Déu a la mesura de les qüestions humanes. Teologia de José María Valverde, by Jordi Castellet (theologian, writer, professor and lecturer) (Paper)
- El lenguaje al oído, by Cartos Maria Moreno (Universitat Ramon Llull)
- La odisea de Valverde, by Tirso Bañeza (Philosopher)
- Qüestions valverdianes de l’autoconsciència: Bases psicològiques de la obra de James Joyce des de la perspectiva de José María Valverde, by lván Sánchez Moreno (Paper)
- El pensamiento religioso de José María Valverde en sus artículos de opinión, by Antonio Fernandez del Amor (Universidad de Murcia)
- La palabra, hogar de la verdad, by José Manuel Bermudo (Universitat de Barcelona)
- La paraula Valverde, by Jaume Trabal and Xicu Masó
Videos
Click here to see the videos of the lectures of the Symposium Trias on José María Valverde.
Here you can also see the program “Mil paraules” that Emili Teixidor dedicated to him on June 10, 1991.
Press Releases
Below are some of the articles that appeared in the press on the occasion of the José María Valverde Symposium:
- La Càtedra Ferrater Mora centra el simposi en José Maria Valverde, Diari de Girona, 29 April 2021
- La poesia de José María Valverde, by Salvador Oliva. El País, 12 July 2021
- Simposi de la Càtedra Ferrater Mora per a José María Valverde, byFonxo Blanc. El 3 de 8, 17 December 2021
Publication
The proceedings of the Symposium were published in 2022 at Documenta Universitaria. This is volume number 19 of the collection “Names of Catalan Philosophy”.
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