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Javier Gomá Lanzón (born 1965) is a Spanish philosopher who is the executive director of the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, Spain, a post he has held since 2003. He holds a doctorate in philosophy and degrees in both classical philology and Spanish law. In 1993 he was the highest scoring candidate in the civil service examinations to serve as a legal counselor to the Spanish Council of State, the highest consultative body of the Spanish government, which he served actively until taking leave in 2008. Gomá is married and the father of four children. ==Writing and lecturing== Gomá is the author of the following books: ''Imitación y experiencia'' (and Experience'' ) (Pre-Textos, 2003), ''Aquiles en el gineceo'' (in the gynaeceum'' ) (Pre-Textos, 2007) and ''Ejemplaridad pública'' (exemplarity'' ) (Taurus, 2009). ''Ejemplaridad pública'' was chosen as one of the 20 best books of 2009 (17/20) by the literary supplement ''Babelia''.〔("Los libros del año" ), ''Babelia'', December 25–26, 2009〕 The book is available in Italian and is pending publication in English in a translation by the late hispanicist Thomas Mermall, who spent the last year of his life on the work. This trilogy is to be followed by a monograph on hope entitled ''Necessary but impossible, or what can we hope for?'' In the works, the book will address what Gomá sees as the remaining element of his work: viewing "exemplarity from the perspective of hope".〔Javier Gomá, ("Filosofar hoy es declararle la guerra a lo que no tiene emoción ni movimiento" ), ''El Cultural'', March 20, 2011〕 In this way the book will complete a general philosophical project he calls a "theorem of experience and hope".〔 In addition to these books, Gomá has also published two collections of essays – ''Ingenuidad aprendida'' (naïveté'' ) (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2011), a book of seven essays that promote the project of recovering a "worldly philosophy" (mundana'' ) which, while tied to the present, seeks to be universal;〔Javier Gomá, ("Filosofía mundana y transparente" ), ''El País'', March 5, 2011.〕 and ''Todo a mil'' (a thousand'' ) (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2012), a collection of 33 "micro-essays" of roughly a thousand words each previously published in the literary supplement Babelia. He has called Todo a mil a book written in installments like many 19th century works.〔("Javier Gomá invita a reflexionar sobre la vida en 'Todo a mil'" ), ''La Vanguardia'', April 11, 2012.〕 Gomá commissioned and coordinated a series of lectures at the Juan March Foundation that he collected and introduced in ''Ganarse la vida en el arte, la literatura y la música'' (a living in art, literature and music'' ) (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2012). The title for the book is taken from one of Gomá’s essays in which he used the phrase "earning a living" as a way of saying we must all earn our position in the world, that it is not given to us. He went on to suggest that a productive way to view cultural history would be to examine the ways in which artists have made their living (supported by benefactors, wealthy patrons, inheritance or wage labor – among others) and how their identification with or rejection of those means of support influenced their work.〔Javier Gomá, ("Ganarse la vida" ), ''El País'', March 20, 2010.〕 Besides his books, Gomá has published many articles in the popular and scholarly press including, among other publications: the newspapers, ''ABC'', ''La Vanguardia'', ''El País'', and ''La Razón''; the literary supplements ''ABCD'' and ''Babelia''; and the journals ''Claves de la Razón Práctica'', ''Revista de Libros'', ''El Noticiero de las Ideas'', ''Turia'' and ''Revista de Occidente''. ''Imitación y experiencia'', Javier Gomá’s first book, brought immediate recognition in the form of the Spanish National Literature Award for Non-fiction in 2004. Prior to that, in 2001, he had received the Thirteenth Annual Award in Journalism of the Spanish Institutional Foundation (FIES) for his article ''La majestad del símbolo'' (majesty of the symbol'' ). In 2011, he was honored with the award for outstanding work in cultural journalism, an award jointly sponsored by ABC Cultural (the cultural supplement of the newspaper ''ABC'') and ''Ámbito Cultural'' (a sponsor of cultural activities funded by El Corte Inglés). Gomá has lectured on subjects related to his works at a great many Spanish institutions, as well as at universities in the United States, Italy, Chile and Argentina. He has also given lectures and written essays and articles on the foundation sector. He was elected in 2012 by ''Foreign Policy'' magazine as one of the fifty most influential Latin American intellectuals.〔http://www.fp-es.org/los-50-intelectuales-iberoamericanos-mas-influyentes-2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Javier Gomá」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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