"In a culture in which knowledge tends to remain extremely specialized and isolated within narrow academic disciplines, Màdera and Tarca propose to restore philosophy's function as a tool for the study of our relationship with existence itself.... Philosophy springs from life and it is life to which it returns.""The philosophical approaches that Màdera and Tarca propose in this genuine `manifesto' of a new practice and understanding of philosophy are the indivisible integration of theory and biography ... they recoup philosophy's original `therapeutic' dimension as a `spiritual exercise' in which the `care of the self' and self-realization go hand in hand with the ethical concept of collectivity - that is, the peaceful cohabitation and communion of the planetary community.""I do want to support the renewal of the classical conception of philosophy as paideia and so as fundamentally a way of life, the way of life consonant with the dignity of what it means to be a human being."