oddity that had not heard of Triana Bridge, or the break of Manolete and the Lying Seven of sales, even if individual membership and implicitly obey the evolution the same run.
"There is a national holiday in Spain and the only reference a country's heritage. Go to the bulls is a personal choice of fan, a passion . Has acquired a universal dimension thanks to the attractiveness of the securities it contains. Universal not mean to be exported. Universal means that it is possible to recognize in its coordinates: the life and death. The beautiful and the sublime. Ethics and aesthetics. The sacrifice of oneself and the fear of death. Creating beauty, "says Francis Wolff.
The same consideration can be found between the pages of 'The philosophy of the run ' pending taurómaca Library and unexpected success of the French market. Five editions has sold the eminent Parisian professor, although, paradoxically, had struggled to find the complicity of an editorial that appeared Bellaterra transpyrenean up. Why?
"uncomfortable Bulls in Spain, is not considered politically correct. In fact, the English have a problematic relationship with the so-called national holiday. My book is an invitation to fans carried her head high. That drop the attitude passive, resigned, blaming. The race is not the past, nor dark Spain or Franco. The race is not racial and anachronistic folklorism is not like Paris Pigalle. There is a reluctance intelligentsia that is entrenched in the misunderstanding and ignorance, "he added without altering the French professor.
Are your reasons?" In the current model of society, death has become shameful. Why deny it, hide it and we went for aseptic models. There is no mourning. Predominates apology for eternal youth. Accept the death of our fellow animal and if we do not see. Many people do not understand and the ceremony of death. Hence the distance from the run. The bull mixes celebration of life with the tragedy of death . It is a ceremonial passage into death. On the death of the bull run and the bullfighter can die. Life is not a state, is an act, an act against the very possibility of death. "
Such reflections of Francis Wolff introduced in the context of postmodernity." There is no humanity without a part of animality, without other to whom be measured, as if man could only prove their humanity to overcome knowledge provided to him and outside him, the animal in its highest form, more beautiful, more powerful. For example, the wild bull: conquer, ie, repel or tame, but above all to oppose the force of cunning, free play, the way of fun, the seriousness of the delivery itself, the force the will, the power of art, awareness of death ... In short, everything that makes man's humanity, "writes philosopher Taurus thoroughly.
France seems to have become a guarantee and a guarantee of the Fiesta . There is a star bullfighter Sebastian Castella, a calendar of Fairs impressive-Nimes, Bayonne, Dax, Mont de Marsan, and a Parisian underground depth topic and beyond the stereotype.
Starting Francis Wolff, whose defenses also become meaningful ecological values. "I do not know the bulls are right or left. Yes they are, objectively, an environmental good. Do not confuse a trend in the interest animalism ecological self. Ecology is the defense of the ecosystem, species, ranching. And those three principles are embodied in the privileged bull. What sense would force its disappearance? "Asks Francis Wolff.
The issue is related to the mediated relationship between man and the environment." The modern world has lost the true contact with nature for the benefit of a relationship sweetened . We see animals as creatures of Disney. The relationship with the bull is not tenderness, or compassion, but of admiration, respect . And that's hard to understand certain urban mentality, away from the field, " Wolff concludes.