Gracián y la modernidad: la indisponibilidad del mundo y el papel constituyente de los otros como claves de la virtud

. The aim of this text is to defend a reading of Gracian’s philosophy in terms of another, non-oppositional modernity that engages in a tensional and con-stitutive relationship with the canonical reading of modernity. To this objective, a contrast will be offered between Heidegger’s conceptualisation of modernity as the «epoch of the image of the world» and the world that can be glimpsed in the works of Baltasar Gracián. The Gracián’s world is unavailable to the human being. More-over, according to this reading, the supposed isolation in which the modern subject was submerged is repeatedly rejected by Gracián. Both in the task of becoming a person and in the formation of eminent individuals, which the first stage of his work deals with, the author gives a fundamental role to others. Both elements give rise to a conception of virtue which, being distinctly modern, allows us to broaden our reading of our own tradition.