A keen and deeply beautiful reflection on the human condition and our relationships with ourselves and others, The Intimate Resistance is an intelligent and thoughtful essay on how we as individuals can warm, protect and guide those around us. Esquirol’s profound, careful, and brilliantly written words introduce us to a new way of thinking about the human condition.

Josep Maria Esquirol is a philosopher, essayist and scholar at the University of Barcelona. His work focuses on contemporary philosophy and its relationship with psychiatry. Esquirol’s essay, The Intimate Resistance, centres around a philosophical theory he developed, the “philosophy of proximity.” The Intimate Resistance won the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona and the Premio Nacional de Ensayo.

Douglas Suttle is a writer, translator and editor based in Catalonia. As well as writing for several newspapers and magazines throughout Europe, he translates to and from Catalan and English for a number of publishing houses and has collaborated with various governmental agencies in the promotion of Catalan language. In addition to his English-language work, in 2021 his verse translation of Beowulf will be published in Catalan.