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La llama poética de Luis García Montero

Pedro García Cueto, como experimentado investigador de genealogías estéticas, sabe que las etiquetas críticas son, con frecuencia, un tormentoso viaje por los acantilados. Tienen suelo mutable y lastran abatidas en la argamasa de los materiales una indeclinable fecha de caducidad. Al fin, el discurrir temporal ...

Aristide Maillol

'Si Maillol a veces se aproxima a los griegos del tiempo de Fidias no es que los comprenda por alguna elucubración intelectual, por el intermedio de un razonamiento, o que los copie, es que siente directamente como ellos; su perfección es la suya, responde a ...

Como bestias

Un pueblo aislado en las montañas; un joven de fuerza sobrehumana con un don para sanar a los animales; una niña que aparece de la nada y que desata todos los rumores en un valle en el que todavía resuenan antiguas leyendas y misterios. Pocos ...

Cuaderno de ideas

«Este libro se compone de ideas, imágenes y citas anotadas a vuelapluma para su posible uso futuro en ficciones de misterio. Solamente unas pocas son, de hecho, tramas desarrolladas; la mayor parte consiste en meras sugerencias o en impresiones arbitrarias destinadas a mantener en activo ...

Tratado de la oración y meditación

El "Tratado de la oración y meditación" de San Pedro de Alcántara es una de las joyas más valiosas de la literatura mística española. Fue escrito para ayudar a cualquier persona que quiera iniciarse en el camino de la oración. La palabra del gran místico ...

El manifiesto comunista

Las cuatro décadas que siguieron a la caída del Muro de Berlín afianzaron una versión moderna y neoliberal del capitalismo global. Este triunfo fue tal que hasta la propia palabra «capitalismo» cayó en desuso ante la ausencia de alternativas políticas creíbles. No obstante, el estallido ...

Confesión

"En 1879, el autor de Guerra y paz y Ana Karenina, de cincuenta años de edad, llegó a creer que sus logros y su existencia carecían de sentido, sumiéndolo en un estado de dolor y desasosiego extremos que parecen conducirlo fatalmente hacia el suicidio. Escrita ...

Joaquín Sorolla

Sorolla tiene un don extraordinario para la pintura, un dominio de la misma que va mucho más allá del virtuosismo para, con ánimo sereno y radiante, adentrarse en un arte capaz de plasmar lo voluptuoso de los sentidos, el fulgor de la luz, la alegría ...

Jonas Mekas

El paraíso recobrado

Jonas Mekas nunca supo dónde empezaba su vida y dónde terminaba. Salió de un pueblo de Lituania con veintiún años y se exilió en Nueva York tras pasar un lustro en campos de trabajo y de refugiados. Fue poeta, crítico de cine, archivista, distribuidor de ...

Tax justice and tax law

understanding unfairness in tax systems

Most people would agree that tax systems ought to be 'just', and perhaps a great deal more just than they are at present. What is more difficult is to agree on what tax justice is. This book considers a range of different approaches to, and ...

The law and governance of mining and minerals

a global perspective

This book explores a disciplinary matrix for the study of the law and governance concerning mining and minerals from a global perspective. The book considers the key challenges of achieving the goals of Agenda 2030 and the transition to low-carbon circular economies. The perspective encompasses ...

Access and cartel cases

ensuring effective competition law enforcement

This book examines the legislative patchwork surrounding access to the European Commission's cartel case files. Recent legislative changes have increased the value of the files and have also highlighted the inherent tension between a number of competing interests affecting their accessibility. The Commission is ...

Intersectionality and human rights law

This collection of essays analyses how diversity in human identity and disadvantage affects the articulation, realisation, violation and enforcement of human rights. The question arises from the realisation that people, who are severally and severely disadvantaged because of their race, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual ...

A guide to global private international law

This book provides a substantial overview of the discipline of private international law viewed from a global perspective. The guide is divided into 4 key sections. Theory Institutional and Conceptual Framework Issues Civil and Commercial Law (apart from Family Law) Family Law Each chapter is ...

Fragmentation and the European patent system

This book provides an in-depth study on current perceptions of, and responses to, fragmentation in the European patent system (EPS). For decades, attempts have been made to address this fragmentation by introducing a unitary patent system. The most recent attempt, the EU unitary patent system ...

Constitutional semiotics

the conceptual foundations of a constitutional theory and meta-theory

This book offers an outline of the foundations of a theory of constitutional semiotics. It provides a systematic account of the concept of constitutional semiotics and its role in the representation and signification of meaning in constitution, constitutional law, and constitutionalism. The book explores the ...

The making of the modern company

This book adopts a historical perspective to highlight, and bring back into focus, the key features of the modern company. A central argument in the book is that legal personhood attaching to an entity containing a corporate fund seeded by shareholders is a direct and ...

The global energy transition

law, policy, and economics for energy in the 21st century

Global energy is on the cusp of change, and it has become almost a truism that energy is in transition. But what does this notion mean exactly? This book explores the working hypothesis that, characteristically, the energy system requires a strategy of the international community ...

The legal foundations of INTERPOL

Since the publication of the extremely well regarded first edition of this title, the legal regime which forms the basis for INTERPOL has changed significantly due to increasing criticism and calls for reform. This timely new edition provides a complete update to reflect the significant ...

Reconceptualising corporate compliance

responsibility, freedom and the law

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding corporate compliance. Should corporations comply with the spirit or the letter of the law? What role does compliance play in a capitalist market economy? Why is it that otherwise law-abiding citizens are willing to implement ...