Presentation of the book “The Challenge of Thinking Differently” by Augusto Castro

On Friday, May 3, at the headquarters of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences, the book “ The challenge of a different way of thinking. Thought, society and nature ” by Professor Augusto Castro of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru was presented.

The work takes on the challenge of thinking from the complexity and diversity that are present in all areas of human activity, starting from an ethical concern for society, the environment and living beings.

Professor Castro was accompanied by the Director of Training at CLACSO, Nicolás Arata; Federico Arnillas Lafert, President of the Roundtable for the Fight against Poverty; and Alejandro Diez Hurtado, Head of the Department of Social Sciences at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

Arnillas Lafert emphasized that the work introduces “a sociological reflection on the changes taking place in Peru today and in Latin America today. It forces us to think of ourselves not as producers of a moment but of a history.”

Diez Hurtado, in turn, defined the book's central theme as "the core concepts." In his view, Augusto Castro aims to "place concepts within history and processes, within elements related to current phenomena, to what is happening in reality: the State, climate change, responsibility, forgiveness."

Augusto Castro , member of the CLACSO Steering Committee and Coordinator of the Network of Postgraduate Studies in Environment and Society, is Principal Professor of the Academic Department of Social Sciences of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he holds the position of director of the Institute of Sciences of Nature, Territory and Renewable Energies (INTE – PUCP), and Vice-President of the Ethics Committee for Research in Human Beings and Animals.