In the book “Dialogue with a Friend”, the author Ioanna Tsivakus refers to the revival of a continuous dialogue with her deceased life partner Emilios Zachareas, on the struggle of ideas that took place in the Western world and obviously in our country throughout the 20th century and continues into the 21st.

Emilios Zachareas (1935-2023), PhD in economics and social sciences, in addition to his teaching at the University of Pisa and Panteion University, author of numerous books of economic and political content, never stopped through his participation in the organizations of the Left (of EDA initially and of the Renewal Left afterwards), to actively participate in the political and social struggles of his time.

The dialogues developed in the book are not intended, as the author confesses, to keep him alive inside her, but to encourage her to delve into critical issues of political thought and criticism, which have at times been stimuli for a repeated exchange of views between them that colored their common day and fate.

The author hopes that perhaps the reader, through a smooth, dialogic confrontation of opinions, will in turn be motivated to reflect on critical issues of our time, which continue to concern us despite all their historical changes.

Concerns about relativism and nihilism, freedom and free will, self-care, political autonomy and political action that develop in the dialogues of Tsivakos and Zachareas, give us the opportunity to reflect in a not cynical but reflective way, the ideological anchors but also the intellectual and political crisis of our time, as well as the climate of cultural and psychological instability and uncertainty, within which we are called to live and raise our children.