Sacrifice and Creation in the Paintings of Rothko

(Barcelona, 1958) holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg in Breisgau (Germany) and the Aesthetics Chair in the Humanities Department of Pompeu Fabra University. He was "Joan Coromines Visiting Professor" at the University of Chicago (2007) and guest professor at the Université St. Joseph in Beirut (2010). He is president of the "Association of Friends of the Alois M. Haas Mystica and Philosophica Library" and a corresponding member of the Collège International de Philosophie (Paris). He is co-director of the "El Árbol del Paraíso" (Paradise Tree) collection of books by Editorial Siruela. He specializes in the study of religious thought and Western mysticism in its links with aesthetics.He is the author of a number of books, including: Master Eckhart, El fruto de la nada (The Fruit of Oblivion) (Madrid, 2010, 7^th ed.); Zen, Mística y Abstracción (Zen, Mysticism and Abstraction) (Madrid, 2002); Ramón Llull y el secreto de la vida (Ramon Llull and the Secret of Life) (Madrid, 2002); Ramon Llull and the Secret of Life, (New York, 2003); El bambú y el olivo (Bamboo and the Olive Tree) (Barcelona, 2004); Arte y Santidad. Cuatro lecciones de estética apofática (Art and Holiness. Four Lessons in Apophatic Aesthetics) (Pamplona, 2005); Tratado de los cuatro modos del espíritu (Treatise on the Four Ways of the Spirit) Barcelona, 2005); Sacrificio y creación en la pintura de Rothko (Sacrifice and Creation in the Paintings of Rothko) (Madrid, 2010) and Tres poetas del exceso. La hermenéutica imposible de Eckhart, Silesius y Celan (Three Poets of Excess. Impossible Hermeneutics in Eckhart, Silesius and Celan) (Barcelona, 2011).