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Esto no tiene sentido

la interpretación materialista del Arte

El arte dice y se dice de muchas maneras. Por ello, han sido también diversos los modos de abordarlo desde la estética filosófica a lo largo de la historia de esta disciplina. Este ensayo construye la noción de interpretación del arte de la mano del ...

Memorias de un revolucionario

Memorias de un revolucionario relata los 50 primeros años de la vida de Piotr Kropotkin, que nació en el seno de la aristocracia rusa (era Príncipe) y acabó siendo teórico anarquista y “organizador” del movimiento obrero. Y es precisamente la descripción de cómo se produjo ...

Vientos Contrarios

Pensamientos contaminados de covid-19

Los breves ensayos que incluye el presente texto abarcan asuntos muy dispares: política, cultura, moral, ideología, capitalismo, comunismo, religión, la vida cotidiana... Temas que se refieren a España y al mundo, al racismo y al feminismo, a la explotación laboral y a las desigualdades en ...

Esencia humana y religión

Ocuparse de la espiritualidad, de la religiosidad y de las religiones significa ocuparse de los orígenes humanos de las que derivan. Intentar hacerlo, superando esquemas metafísicos, materialistas y laicos, siguiendo las huellas de algunos grandes pensadores, en primer lugar de Feuerbach, significa buscar nuevos motivos ...

1220 Preguntas Tipo Test

La Ley de Contratos del Sector Público, Ley 9/2017, de 8 de noviembre

Cuarto volumen de la exitosa colección especializada en oposiciones “1220 Preguntas Tipo Test” ¡Incluye todas las modificaciones de esta ley! El conocimiento profundo y detallado de la Ley de Contratos del Sector Público, es una de las piezas básicas para la superación de oposiciones para ...

Perturbaciones en el cumplimiento de los negocios procesales

convenios arbitrales, pactos de jurisdicción, cláusulas escalonadas y otras tantas novelas quizás ejemplares, de las que se espera que entretengan mucho

La presente obra inicia su camino con una pregunta: ¿por qué no existe, hasta hoy, una teoría general de las perturbaciones de los negocios procesales? ¿Es porque son invulnerables? ¿Está todo dicho sobre su vulneración, porque sus efectos no difieren de los que se producen ...

Syrian requiem

the civil war and its aftermath

A compact, incisive history of one of the defining conflicts of our time Leaving almost half a million dead and displacing an estimated twelve million people, the Syrian Civil War is a humanitarian catastrophe of unimaginable scale. Syrian Requiem analyzes the causes and course of ...

Byzantine intersectionality

sexuality, gender and race in the Middle Ages

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval world While the term "intersectionality" was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia. Byzantine Intersectionality reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around matters of sexual and ...

A Velvet Empire

french informal imperialism in the Nineteenth Century

How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is ...

Mary, Queen of Scots and the casket letters

Mary Queen of Scots - tragic heroine or adulteress conniving in murder? This book adds to the mysterious drama, covering an historical detective story which has absorbed readers for over 400 years. Yet it is much more than a powerful tale with human tragedy, suffering and ...

Business lobbying in the European Union

At a time when Europe and business stand at crossroads, this study provides a perspective into how business representation in the EU has evolved and valuable insights into how to organize lobbying strategies and influence policy-making. Uniquely, the authors analyze business lobbying in Brussels by ...

Brexit and the future of the European Union

the case for constitutional reforms

Brexit represents a momentous event for the European Union, with important implications on the future of Europe. While most scholarly attention has focused on the Brexit process and its consequences for the United Kingdom, and UK-EU relations, Brexit has had important consequences also for the ...

Minoan Crete

an introduction

Along with Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Levant, Minoan Crete was one of the primary cultures of the prehistoric Mediterranean world. In this book, L. Vance Watrous offers an up-to-date overview of this important ancient society. Using archaeological evidence from palaces, houses, surveys, caves, and mountain ...

Stalin's soviet justice

"Show" trials, war crimes trials, and Nuremberg

From the 'show' trials of the 1920s and 1930s to the London Conference, this book examines the Soviet role in the Nuremberg IMT trial through the prism of the ideas and practices of earlier Soviet legal history, detailing the evolution of Stalin's ideas about ...

Perfecting the union

national and state authority in the US Constitution

For most of the twentieth century, the American founding has been presented as a struggle between social classes over issues arising primarily within, rather than outside, the United States. But in recent years, new scholarship has instead turned to the international history of the American ...

The Eastern Frontier

limits of empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia

Transoxania, Khurasan, and Tukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region was both an eastern political boundary for Persian and Islamic empires and a cultural border ...

Carving a professional identity

the occupational epigraphy of the Roman Latin West

Carving a Professional Identity: The occupational epigraphy of the Roman Latin West presents the results of long-term research into the occupational epigraphy from the Latin-language provinces of the Roman Empire. It catalogues stone epigraphs of independent professionals (thus excluding state workers, imperial slaves, freedmen and ...

Human transgression - divine retribution

a study of religious transgressions and punishments in Greek cultic regulation and Lydian-Phrygian propitiatory inscriptions ('confession inscriptions')

Human Transgression - Divine Retribution analyses pagan concepts of religious transgressions, how they should be regarded and punished, as expressed in Greek cultic regulations from the 5th century BC to the 3rd century AD. Also considered are the so-called propitiatory inscriptions (often referred to as 'confession ...

Polis and revolution

responding to oligarchy in Classical Athens

During the turbulent last years of the fifth century BC, Athens twice suffered the overthrow of democracy and the subsequent establishment of oligarchic regimes. In an in-depth treatment of both political revolutions, Julia Shear examines how the Athenians responded to these events, at the level ...

Administrative justice fin de siecle

early judicial standards of administrative conduct in Europe (1890-1910)

The second volume in this series explores the evolution of administrative laws in Europe to better understand the foundations of EU institutions, focusing on the period of 1890-1910. These years saw both a growth of governments and either the entry into force or the consolidation ...