This is a very hard to find item. The publisher has advised that they are no longer printing this item and do not have any more in stock. Item is brand new and still in shrink wrap. Due to the limited supply of this item, it will ship with insurance and require a signature at delivery. Please note that this is the Bilingual English & Spanish Edition. I also sell the Spanish Only Edition (ISBN 9789588160023). If you prefer the Spanish Only Edition, please send me a message when you order. From the Publisher: Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994) was a Colombian writer and thinker who is considered one of the most intransigent political theoreticians of the twentieth century. His fame began to spread only in the last few years before his death, particularly by way of German translations of his works. Gómez Dávila was one of the most radical critics of modernity whose work consists almost entirely of aphorisms which he called „escolios“ (or „glosses“). These aphorisms, or modestly named „annotations,“ are distillations of the thought of one of the America’s most outstanding conservative philosophers. This work is considered of major importance in Italy and Germany, where translations of his theology, informed by a hard-edged realism, continue to stimulate debate. Compared, among others, with Pascal, Rivarol, Joubert, Jürgen, and Cioran, Gómez Dávila is now recognized to have been a thinker of world stature, with a shocking sense of clarity and originality of thought.