Centón Epistolario I

El ensayo que se traduce en este volumen, La etica de la autenticidad, segun el titulo de la edicion norteamericana, o El malestar de la modernidad, segun reza la primera version canadiense, es el ultimo libro publicado por el filosofo canadiense, es el ultimo libro publicado por el filosofo canadiense Charles Taylor 1931. y puede ser presentado como una culminacion de su obra mas extensa, Sources of the Self. The Making of Modern Identity. El trabajo de Taylor, profesor de filosofia en la Universidad de McGill, es exponente de una perspectiva hermeneutica que se encamina a la critica social...

Traces the history of the Jews in Spain until the expulsion in 1492 in regard to relations between the Crown, the Church, and the populace regarding the Jews and Conversos. Discusses, also, the fate of the Conversos during the 16th century. Focuses on Castile, with special attention to the city of Ávila. Asserts that anti-Jewish hostility in Spain, already from the time of the Visigoths, was not based on racism, but rather on negative religious stereotypes rooted in the minds of the populace and of the lower clergy, as well as on socioeconomic factors, such as the rise of Jews to dominant...

Sáenz Quesada sintetiza el recorrido histórico y cronológico que va desde la fundación de la sociedad colonial hasta la actualidad. Son 74 capítulos pensados para ser leídos en forma independiente, que incluyen los hechos políticos sobresalientes, pero también referencias a la vida privada, rasgos biográficos de los protagonistas, el clima de ideas y la sensibilidad de cada época, además de ejemplos para que el pasado se humanice y se vuelva más cercano y comprensible.

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...