Abstract

Always marked by the relationship between philosophy and literature, the thought of Eduardo Lourenço (1923-2020) develops over a vast intellectual production - some of it still unpublished - corresponding to a deep, careful and responsible attention to his time. This article starts from that attention, trying to demonstrate the contours of his originality, as well as mapping the main features of his philosophical and literary relevance. Going through the notions of "heterodoxy", "essayism" and "temporality", we intend to follow some of the paths traversed by the thinker's work, clarifying the way in which they are constructed from a widening of the idea of reason nourished by the multiplicity of the challenges of time.