Next March 18, in the Taro Room of the César Manrique Foundation, the book "The Promised Land", by Chantal Maillard, will be presented. A document that is conceived as a litany against the extinction of species and in favor of biodiversity.
In Maillard's words, "this circular poem is both a manifesto and a memorial. It is also a litany... those who repeat it concentrate their will, their energy in it. The names of the species in extinction burst into the prayer without interrupting it, like spirits that come to ask us for help [...] We are talking about species, not specific individuals. How many animals die when a species disappears?".
Chantal Maillard is a doctor in Pure Philosophy, a poet and a thinker. She has lived for long periods in Benares (India), where she specialized in Indian Philosophy and Religion. Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts at the University of Malaga, she is the author of fifteen essay titles, with which she has obtained different national awards. Among them, "Against Art and Other Impostures" (2009); "Threads", with which she obtained the National Critics Award in 2008; "Killing Plato", for which she received the National Poetry Prize in 2004; "Philosophy in Critical Days" (2001); Jaisalmer (1996); "Poems to my death" (Santa Cruz de La Palma Prize, 1993) and "María Zambrano and the Divine" (1990).
In addition, she regularly collaborates with critiques of philosophy, aesthetics and oriental thought in the cultural supplements of ABC and El País, among others.
