PhiloQuest 2025 was a year-long journey through books and films exploring politics, technology, history, and literature. Monthly discussion group where we examined a book or film and explored the ideas within.

Sessions were not recorded.

Virtual meetups on the last Wednesday of each month at 7:00 pm CET (Madrid time).


2025 Lineup

January: Her (2013) – Directed by Spike Jonze

February: Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin

March: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) – Directed by Werner Herzog

April: The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs

May: The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

June: About Time (2013) – Directed by Richard Curtis

July: Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen

August: Bab’Aziz: The Prince That Contemplated His Soul (2005) – Directed by Nacer Khemir

September: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan

October: The Poverty of Historicism by Karl Popper

November: Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf

December: Sunset Boulevard (1950) – Directed by Billy Wilder


What People Said

“My 3rd or 4th PhiloQuest purchase. Always happy.” — Anonymous

“These discussions are always entertaining and sometimes even educational. :-D” — Robert T Muir