TEMPS DE MEMÒRIA / MEMORY TIMES
Oriol Ponsatí-Murlà és doctor en Filosofia per la Universitat de Girona i professor de Filosofia Antiga i d’Història de la Ciència i la Cultura en aquesta mateixa universitat. Ha escrit una quarantena d’articles, llibres i capítols de llibre sobre filosofia antiga i història intel·lectual i cultural de la Catalunya contemporània, amb treballs sobre Joan Maragall, Joaquim Xirau, Prudenci i Aurora Bertrana, Jaume Vicens Vives, Josep Palau i Fabre, Gabriel Ferrater, Josep Ferrater Mora, Josep M. Corredor, i Joan Fuster. ORCID: 0000-0002-4804-0568. Adreça electrònica: oriol.ponsati@udg.edu
Joan Roura-Parella is one of the most solid thinkers in pedagogy in the 1930s in Catalonia and, at the same time, as a result of his long exile in the United States, one of the most unknown and undervalued in our country. In his intellectual itinerary, the two-year stay (1930-1932) at the University of Berlin and the direct contact with Eduard Spranger and the sciences of the spirit constitute a real turning point. A few months after returning from Germany, Roura-Parella gave a lecture in Girona in front of Cassià Costal and his former classmates from the Escola Normal de Girona. Throughout this conference (the summary of which will be published in various media), Roura-Parella announces some of the main reasons we will find in different places of his production. This paper attempts to relate the content of this lecture to later texts by the same author to understand better the genesis and unfolding of his thought. At the end of the article, we include a transcript of the summary of the Girona conference.