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A prolific thinker and author, highlights among his publications include two books of conversations, one with Peter Sloterdijk, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gott, Geist und Geld<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (God, Spirituality and Money) and another with Anselm Kiefer, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Am Anfang. Kunst und Gnosis<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Anselm Kiefer: In the Beginning, Art and Gnosis), as well as his work <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Das Leben ist ungerecht<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Life is Unfair) about how illness, disability, life expectancy and causes of death question the socio-political ideals of justice. He has also dealt in depth with suicide, the subject of his book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arrebatar la vida<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Snatching Away Life, Herder) and humans&#8217; relations with an animal species, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cerdos<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Pigs, Adriana Hidalgo), to discuss the sense of foreboding that pervades corners of the familiar.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15124,"template":"","categoria-participante":[517],"class_list":["post-17075","participante","type-participante","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria-participante-why-we-have-built-ourselves-this-way"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thomas Macho - Encuentros de Pamplona \/ Iru\u00f1eko Topaketak<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.losencuentrosdepamplona.com\/en\/participante\/thomas-macho\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thomas Macho - Encuentros de Pamplona \/ Iru\u00f1eko Topaketak\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Scientist and philosopher. 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