Pánico y ternura

In this reflective and incisive collection of essays, Chilean thinker and aesthetician Paz López examines human vulnerability and the ethics of care. Weaving personal recollections and cultural criticism—from Susan Sontag and Georges Perec to Pier Paolo Pasolini and Nick Cave—she argues that tenderness is not a passive sentiment, but an active, necessary form of resistance against contemporary cruelty and isolation.