Ricardo Forster earned his doctorate in philosophy and is now a professor and researcher at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He was a Distinguished Professor of the Juan Ramón Jiménez Lecturers and Seminars Series at the University of Maryland (College Park). He has also been a visiting professor at universities in Mexico, the United States, Germany, Brazil, Spain, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru, and the Czech Republic. Among his latest books are La muerte del héroe (Ariel, 2011), La travesía del abismo: Mal y modernidad en Walter Benjamin (FCE, 2014), La repetición argentina (Marea, 2016), Huellas que regresan: Sobre la naturaleza, la infancia, los libros y los viajes (Akal, 2018), La sociedad invernadero (Akal, 2019), and El derrumbe del Palacio de cristal (Akal, 2020).