Historia mínima de Centroamérica

A partir de una exhaustiva recopilación de fuentes documentales –sobre todo, noticias de prensa desde mediados del siglo XIX hasta la actualidad–, analizamos la sorprendente historia, antigua y reciente, del edificio de mayor plasticidad y proyección sociocultural de la capital del Turia, que denominamos la Plaza de Valencia atendiendo a sus múltiples usos, su impacto y su apertura al conjunto de la ciudadanía en todos los tiempos. Desde su arquitectura en el marco del urbanismo valenciano, el foco se trasladará hacia la explosión y diversidad de espectáculos celebrados en el coso, ...

En este breve y contundente texto –publicado en 1956 en la Rowohlts Deutsche Enzyclopädie–, el destacado filólogo alemán Walter F. Otto, autor de Los dioses de Grecia (1929), hace un rescate de la religión griega, vista no como consecuencia de una «ilusión primitiva» o de la irracionalidad del hombre, no como resultado del terror o la fascinación ante el mysterium del mundo, mucho menos como producto del «inconsciente colectivo», sino más bien como auténtica revelación de lo Divino.

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