Eugenio Trías Sagnier

Eugenio Trías Sagnier studied at University of Barcelona. The recorded working language is Catalan and Spanish. Employment is recorded with University of Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona and Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Work by Eugenio Trías Sagnier is recorded in the collections of Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. Distinctions recorded are Anagrama Essay Prize, National Award of Essay, ABC Cultural & Ámbito Cultural Award and honorary doctorate of the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Trías was born in Barcelona. After obtaining his bachelor's degree in philosophy at the University of Barcelona in 1964, he continued his studies in Pamplona, Madrid, Bonn and Cologne. Since 1965 he was assistant professor and, later, associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona (UAB). In 1976 he became assistant professor of aesthetics and composition at the School of Architecture of Barcelona. In 1986 he became Chair of Philosophy at this University, where he remained until 1992. In 1992 he became Chair Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where he remained as a professor of History of Ideas until his death. Trias died in his home city at age 70. Trias published over thirty-five books, some of which have had several editions in Spain and abroad. His work is regarded by the critics as one of two most significant philosophical pillars of the contemporary Spanish thought. His first book, The philosophy and its shadow, published in 1969, was called as "the philosophy of a new generation" (Josep Maria Carandell).

Trías had an encyclopedical conception of philosophy and worked in fields including ethics, politics, aesthetics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of history, theory of knowledge, and ontology. His personal conception of ontology, usually called the philosophy of Limit," informed much of his work. In chronological order, the main topics of Trias' philosophical works have been: • The shadows of the philosophical theories • The reason of the irrational • The artists and their society • The Sinister as the limit and condition of beauty • Passionate love as the basis of intelligence • The Modernity crisis • The human condition as a bordering existence • The religious experience • The beauty and the sacred • A new ethics as an ethics of limit • The musical turn of the Philosophy In The Sirens Chant and The Sonorous Imagination Trias argued that the philosophy of the 21st century must draw upon musical aspects over language, since the former represents the most perfect synthesis of beauty and knowledge.

His concept of the limit is the result of an intense dialogue with the Kantian tradition, Wittgenstein and Heidegger, and a commentary on Wittgenstein's statement "subject is a limit of the world." Trías proposed that being (whose issue has always been the main question for Western philosophy from its origins) may be understood as "being of limit" -- that is, the border area that separates as well as joins the phenomena and the noumena. That limit is also the boundary between the reason and its shadows. Whereas in Kant's thought there was not such a limit or borderline that merges and splits the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself, Trias held that such a limit exists. He argued that it is a precarious, delicate, subtle but fundamental, and the being that philosophers intend to define. Trias develops an anthropology in which the person is conceived as an inhabitant of the being's limit. On this respect, person is always referred to the abovementioned limit, which for Trias has an ontological significance.

• Philosophy and its shadows (1969, three editions) • Philosophy and Carnival (1970, 3 editions) • Theory of ideology (1970, 3 editions) • Methodology of magical thought (1971) • Drama and identity (1973, 3 editions) • The artist and the city (1975, 3 editions) • Meditation on power (1976, 2 editions) • The lost memory of things (1977, 2 editions) • Treaty on passion (1978, 5 editions) • The language of forgiveness. An essay on Hegel (1979) • Beauty and the Sinister (1981, 5 editions) • Philosophy of the future (1984, 2 editions) • The world's limits (1985, 2 editions) • The philosophical adventure (1987) • Limit's logic (1991) • The tiredness of the West (1992, 4 editions), with Rafael Argullol • The age of the Spirit (1994, 3 editions) • Thinking religion (1997, 2 editions) • Vertigo and passion (1998, 2 editions) • The borderline reason (1999) • City over city (2001) • The life's tree (2003) • The truth's thread (2004) • Politics and its shadow (2005) • The Sirens chant (2007) • Philosophical creations (2009), a selection of his collected works (2 volumes) • The sonorous imagination (2010)

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The following is established of origins and background. Sagnier died in 2013 at Barcelona. It is also recorded that eugenio Trías Sagnier was born in 1942 at Barcelona.