# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Lectio Magistralis with Todor P. Todorov
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 11:00 am – Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 12:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Lectio Magistralis

Don Quixote in Gaza
The Remedy of Madness
Todor P. Todorov

Don Quixote in Gaza approaches the Knight of the Mournful Countenance as a figure of sacred madness — a rebellion against cruelty, the banality of violence, and the reduction of life to survival, profit, and war. Drawing on Nabokov, Arendt, Habermas, and Le Guin, the lecture exposes how modern reason, in the guise of science, technology, and the all-permeating logic of the market, has colonised life, normalising war, exploitation, and mass killings as if they were necessary and justifiable. Don Quixote’s madness becomes the antidote, indeed the remedy — a yearning for transcendence, an imagination incarnate. Madness becomes a mode of truth.

Science and technology reduce life to numbers, machines, and control. Cruelty and war embody the logical outcome of such reduction. Don Quixote’s “madness” is, paradoxically, the last stronghold of Reason. We inhabit an environment that stimulates simple, one-dimensional responses. It reinforces the brute logic of always already being at war.

It is Alonso Quijano who died, feeble and old, in his bed. While Don Quixote went on his journey — beyond Spain, beyond Europe, and beyond all the comforts of hearth and home. Don Quixote died in Gaza. He was shot, starved, shelled, and burned. He was defeated by rockets and mortars. The windmills of progress, those terrifying giants, killed him after all.

What is opposite to war is not peace but home. War is homelessness, exile. Peace, by contrast, means coming home, building a home. True community relies on imagination and the imaginary. Deprived of it, we are always alone, even next to each other. We are poetic beings, madmen, bound by narratives, by stories and languages. We feed on the imaginary — just like Don Quixote. Without recognising that poetry, of which our existence is woven, we become our own nightmare. Home is not a place or a time, but an intangible togetherness. It is being where you belong, being at peace.

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Valletta
- **state**: MA
- **country**: Malta
- **location**: University of Malta - Valletta Campus
- **lat**: 35.898554658454
- **long**: 14.515615409411
- **full address**: University of Malta - Valletta Campus, 158 Triq San Kristofru, Valletta, VLT, Malta

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- **organizer**: The Malta Festival of Ideas (https://allevents.in/org/the-malta-festival-of-ideas/26760788)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 11:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** University of Malta - Valletta Campus, 158 Triq San Kristofru, Valletta, VLT, Malta
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Malta Festival of Ideas
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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