This year, 2020, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the great Swabian philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (who shares this anniversary with other greats such as Beethoven and Hölderlin). For this reason, numerous commemorative initiatives have been launched: el Círculo de Bellas Artes has joined the international initiative “Hegel Now!”, created for this purpose by various universities and institutions worldwide. This talk, as well as a conference on Hölderlin and Hegel that we will hold in December, and the publication of books and other materials, are intended to be the contribution ofel Círculo to this initiative. On the other hand, as we know, the undisputed focus of our conversations and our lives has been, for some time now, the coronavirus pandemic. Talking about Hegel's death allows us to return to a historical moment, Central Europe in 1831, ravaged by a severe cholera epidemic. This is the disease from which, according to all biographies, Hegel died, as certified by as many as three doctors at the time. But was it really so? Was cholera the cause of Hegel's death? Or perhaps he died for another reason, and it was other motives that prompted his contemporaries and scholars of his life and work to offer the cholera explanation?

A new date of On Mondays, at Círculo

Participate Felix Duke (Emeritus Professor of History of Modern Philosophy/UAM) and Juan Antonio Vargas (Professor of Internal Medicine (UAM/Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda University Hospital). In conversation with Valerio Rocco Lozano.