“O que em mim pensa, está sentindo”: considerações sobre a hermenêutica de Eduardo Lourenço

In Eduardo Lourenco’s immense essayistic production, my text looks for the places where the desire to lucidly analyze the errors and flaws of national history is combined with the passionate dedication to his role as interpreter of the most heterodox and, at the same time, most striking figures of the Portuguese cultural panorama. Because it’s in this swing between rejection and acceptance of “Portugal as destiny”, it’s in this incessant movement between reason and passion, it’s in this continuous alternance between estrangement and entrancement that it’s possible to assess the profound and dissonant dialectic governing his hermeneutic commitment and allowing him to inhabit the distance that separates and unites him, without remedy, to his land of origin.