El 2 de agosto tuvo lugar la Mesa Redonda «Aesthetics of Thought: a transdisciplinary perspective on philosophy from the Caribbean», organizada por Dialitza Colón para el World Congress of Philosophy (Roma, La Sapienza). El objetivo de la mesa era el que sigue a continuación:

This workshop aims to present the philosophical trilogy Aesthetics of Thought, by the Puerto Rican philosopher Francisco José Ramos. The work focuses mostly on Aesthetics, Ancient Philosophy, Eastern and 20th-Century Philosophy, Neuroscience, Psychoanalysis, and Buddhist thought, in which philosophy is presented as a literary experiment, an artistic experience, and an exploration into the nature of aesthetics. For Ramos, aesthetics is not a branch of philosophy, but philosophy itself. This can explain that the central focus of his project is to reflect upon thought as a subject and the art of thinking with words. In this sense, writing is the scenography of thought and the laboratory of philosophical conceptualization. From there, sensitivity and intellect, the mind and the body, can come to a recognition of their mutual implications. Therefore, Aesthetics of Thought is not only an aesthetic but an ethical, political and ontological project.

En la mesa participaron Dialitza Colón, Raúl de Pablos, Alejandra Ramos Riera y el propio filósofo caribeño Francisco José Ramos.

Por mi parte, pude contribuir con la conferencia «From the dazzlement towards new paths of understanding and liberation: a marxist dialogue with The Aesthetics of Thought of Francisco José Ramos», centrada en el segundo volumen de la Estética del pensamiento, La danza en el laberinto (2003) y su crítica del capitalismo neoliberal a través de una singular y fértil recepción de Marx, Spinoza, el Psicoanálisis y el Budismo. La comparto a continuación en inglés.

Gracias a Diali y a Raúl por su invitación, que terminó siendo todo un homenaje al pensamiento y la obra de nuestro querido Paco.