“Happiness is something very difficult to define, but who could say that they are not looking for it?” Silvio Maresca last year, in a lengthy conversation with Jorge Fontevecchia. For a philosopher, this may be the big question to answer, but for Maresca, a thinker specialized in Nietzscheinterested in studying political models such as Marxism or Peronism in Argentina, the real question was how the subjectivity of today’s man was constituted.
His most obvious relationship with Peronism was his time in the management of Eduardo Duhaldeat the head of the National Library in 2002 and 2003. A few years before, he had been part of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Graduated in Philosophy, he was a professor at the UBA, researcher and writer of books such as “Nietzsche and the Enlightenment”, “Ethics and power at the end of history” and “On the path of Nietzsche”, among other titles.
A man of thoughts opposed to the progressive “mainstream”, he explained his positions in columns and articles in Perfil, Revista Noticias and La Nación, among other media.
In recent years, she declared herself against abortion and feminism and in favor of donald trump. “There are things about Trump that I cannot deny that I like, such as his confrontation with what is politically correct. I hate political correctness. Something that the big media represent, not only in the United States”, he said in that same dialogue with Fontevecchia, who to end the talk asked him: who can teach politics or politicians something?”, to which Maresca responded: “The disconnection is so great that I became skeptical. But I would tell them to read. That they read something more than the newspapers”.
Last Monday the philosopher died at 77 years.
