Mirrors and Echoes

En este libro se discuten algunos problemas fundamentales de la sociedad contemporánea que se derivan del desarrollo científico y tecnológico. En el análisis se destacan las aportaciones de la filosofía. La obra explica con claridad que los desafíos de la sociedad del conocimiento, así como los del aprovechamiento de la ciencia y la tecnología para la solución de problemas sociales exigen aproximaciones interdisciplinarias y en muchas ocasiones transdisciplinarias; es decir, enfoques novedosos que abran el camino a planteamientos que no pueden ofrecer por sí solas ninguna de las...

Baltazar Brito Guadarrama interpreta los diferentes glifos de El Códice Boturini o Tira de la peregrinación y su importancia en el éxodo que los mexicas emprendieron desde Aztlán. El códice se extiende temporalmente desde la salida de una tierra mítica con características lacustres, propiciada por orden del dios Huitzilopochtli, hasta la llegada de los mexicas al Valle de México, su sometimiento al altépetl de Culhuacán y su victoria sobre los xochimilcas. Además de la descripción y aclaración de los glifos del códice, el autor ofrece y contrasta la información de diversas...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...