Having moved beyond modernity and postmodernity, the death of God and savior ideologies, we have arrived at nowhere. So what now? Cool memoriesJean Baudrillard recounts that "at the height of an orgy, a man whispered in a woman's ear: 'What are you going to do after the orgy?'" The philosopher Gregorio Luri uses this anecdote to illustrate our bewilderment: "When, finally, having transcended inherited limits, it seemed we should feel free, we find ourselves asking what to do after the orgy." And he concludes: "We love freedom, but we seek the shelter of fidelity; we defend critical thinking, but we struggle to submit to criticism of ourselves..."

Gregorio Luri (Azagra, Navarre, 1955) reads peacefully in the sun. The philosopher and educator, author of School is not an amusement park and The conservative imagination, received last Monday the Atlantis prize and is pleased with the publication of The dignity of mediocrity. A short philosophy of the unfinished. (Encounter, 2025). In both books and conversation, Luri uses quotations to weave together discourse and ideas. He does not do so—he assures us—or not only, for personal enjoyment, but because of the duty he believes we all have to transmit those things that help us understand the world a little better.

For the first time in forty years, the Atlántida Prize has been awarded to a teacher. The educator, philosopher, essayist, editor, and contributor to the ARA (Argentine Association of Publishers) Gregorio Luri (Azagra, Navarre, 1955) received the 40th Atlántida Prize, awarded by the Catalan Publishers' Guild. The Night of Publishing was celebrated at the Goya Theatre, in front of the entire publishing profession and with representatives from the Catalan Ministers of Education, Culture, and Language Policy. The director of the ARA, Esther Vera, who spoke about the award winner, described him as "the philosopher-teacher on a crusade against ignorance": "All his work can be understood as the patient gesture of helping us turn our gaze toward the light, even if it is not always comfortable," Vera explained, referring to Luri himself. In dozens of books such as On the art of reading either School is not an amusement parkLuri has defended "an idea so classic it's almost countercultural: that knowledge matters, that effort has meaning, and that not everything is relative," Vera recalled.