The authors Jorge Alemán and Germán Cano presented their book “From Disenchantment to Populism” at the end of March 2017 in the Boardroom of the CBA together with Jorge Moruno, Mercedes de Francisco Vila and Carlos Fernández Liria. http://www.circulobellasartes.com/ Carlos Fernández Liria, professor of Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid, reviewed those years of the Transition, highlighting the inaction of intellectuals such as Savater, Ferlosio, García Calvo or Pollán, among others. Fernández Liria harshly criticises the inaction of intellectuals, as well as the Movida, “a lobotomised, posh and unbearable movement”. Liria links up with Juventud sin futuro, which is also discussed in the book, “sensible young people with fingers on their foreheads, who knew how to see that the enemy was not the State but capitalism”. From there to 15M and Podemos, “where we are perhaps better and less corrupt than in the PP or the PSOE, but just as stupid.” Mercedes de Francisco, psychoanalyst, member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis and the Institute of the Freudian Field, highlighted the importance of the book in terms of conversation that is brought to a written text, as is the case here, and the questioning of the Transition and the hubbub of the Movida, as well as the impact it had on Latin America. De Francisco brings out in the book how the desire to be European, the desire to party, hid everything else, all the unresolved problems during the dictatorship. From there he investigates populism, neo-fascism and the wild neoliberalism that “is yet to come.” Jorge Moruno, sociologist and writer, establishes another vision from someone who did not live through that Transition. Moruno delves into the question of politics on the table, and the importance of talking about it in the face of the “markets” that have hijacked power. In front of them, Moruno proposes the defense of parliamentary democracy, which has become something strange. Moruno is in favor of the book's criticism of Marxism in that it is capable of detecting problems and enemies, but not in articulating solutions or making itself understandable to people or taking them for fools. Germán Cano, professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Alcalá de Henares, begins with an anecdote to symbolize the meaning of the book that touches on this fight against the old. "How do you build a new historical block? Can you build it based on the challenge to the regime of '78, appealing to keys already questioned by history. Is this our ground on which to think?"