Cultural Coordinator for Podemos; Professor of Philosophy and the History of Aesthetic Ideas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Madrid, Spain

Eduardo Maura

Eduardo Maura, whose work focuses on the fields of cultural research, critical theory, and aesthetics, is responsible for the cultural platform of the new Spanish political party Podemos (We Can). A professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Maura is the author of Las teorías críticas de Walter Benjamin (The Critical Theories of Walter Benjamin) and the editor of the Spanish editions of Discourse on the Origins and Basis of Inequality among Men (Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin’s The Critique of Violence (Crítica de la violencia).