De la falla a la falta

"This definitive biography reveals the complicated inner life of the founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism ushered in a century of upheaval that transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. On October 31, 1517, so the story goes, a shy monk named Martin Luther nailed a piece of paper to the door of the Castle Church in the university town of Wittenberg. The ideas contained in these Ninety-five Theses, which boldly challenged the Catholic Church, spread like wildfire. Within two months, they were known all over Germany. So ...

Hoy en día nadie pone en cuestión que Martin Heidegger es el filósofo más influyente del siglo XX. Pero también es una llaga en la filosofía alemana. Así, el «caso Heidegger», las controversias en torno a su persona, y más concretamente a su actitud política, han producido grietas en el mundo filosófico y han impedido que su obra sea leída sin prejuicios, en lo que realmente tiene de importante -no en vano, ha marcado a filósofos de todas las tendencias, incluso a pensadores tan fuera de toda «sospecha» como Jean-Paul Sartre o Hannah Arendt-. Rüdiger Safranski recorre paso a...

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

RESUMEN: En Volcan apagado, Anel relata lo que fue vivir junto a José José, una de las estrellas mas importantes de la musica popular mexicana, quemar los deseos en el alcohol, en la sala de un hospital, en el refugio de una noche sin caricias.