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En defensa de la razón

Contribución a la crítica del posmodernismo

Vivimos tiempos de incertidumbre, en los que la eclosión de las corrientes posmodernas que cuestionan la racionalidad y toda una tradición que nos antecede parecen disolver la conciencia histórica conduciéndonos irremediablemente a una crisis de lo político. Ello supone caer en un relativismo extremo y ...

Explotación

Santiago Sierra y la historicidad del arte contemporáneo

Probablemente no exista ningún otro artista contemporáneo cuya obra beba con tanta coherencia de la conciencia de la crisis como Santiago Sierra. En su obra, la explotaciónes un tema central. Georg Imdahl ahonda en ello y lo analiza en su doble orientación: como crítica artística ...

Francisco Umbral

El oferente de retales preciosos

Los comentarios, las reflexiones, las dudas de Diego Vadillo López aportan un enfoque nuevo sobra la prosa poética de Francisco Umbral: soplan unos nuevos aires frescos en torno a una escritura ya inmortal. Fino conocedor de las vanguardias artísticas de principios del siglo XX, Diego ...

Noche salvaje

A la pequeña localidad de Peardale llega un hombre de aspecto inofensivo haciéndose pasar por estudiante universitario. En realidad, es un despiadado asesino a sueldo contratado para acabar con la vida de un testigo clave en un futuro juicio contra la mafia de las apuestas ...

Art History

a very short introduction

Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction, Dana Arnold presents an introduction to the issues, debates, and artefacts that make up art history. Beginning with a consideration of what ...

América Latina y el proceso de modernización

América Latina afronta, a comienzos del siglo XXI, un nuevo desafío en el ámbito de la participación política y de los derechos civiles. La ampliación del principio de equidad social y de garantía institucional es el fundamento de la predisposición democrática, que se ejerce con ...

Albert Camus

a very short introduction

Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted works have led to countless movie adaptions, graphic novels, pop songs, and even t-shirts. In this Very Short Introduction, Oliver Gloag chronicles the inspiring story ...

Niels Bohr

a very short introduction

Niels Bohr, who pioneered the quantum theory of the atom, had a broad conception of his obligations as a physicist. They included not only a responsibility for the consequences of his work for the wider society, but also a compulsion to apply the philosophy he ...

Korea

a very short introduction

Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons- the South as an economic success story and for its vibrant popular culture; the North as the home to one of ...

Superstition

a very short introduction

Do you touch wood for luck, or avoid hotel rooms on floor thirteen? Would you cross the path of a black cat, or step under a ladder? Is breaking a mirror just an expensive waste of glass, or something rather more sinister? Despite the dominance ...

Racism

a very short introduction

There is often a demand for a short, sharp definition of racism, for example as captured in the popular formula Power + Prejudice= Racism. But in reality, racism is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be captured by such definitions. In our world today there are ...

Age of Iron

on conservative natiionalism

The rise of a populist conservative nationalism in the United States has triggered unease at home and abroad. Riding the populist wave, Donald Trump achieved the presidency advocating a hardline nationalist approach. Yet critics frequently misunderstand the Trump administration's foreign policy, along with American ...

Possessive individualism

a crisis of capitalism

Anxiety and alienation threaten modern democracies. Political anger runs rampant in the United States, Britain voted to leave the European Union, authoritarian governments control several European countries, and millions of desperate migrants are streaming north out of the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. Many ...

Why does inequality matter?

Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they have and what others have ...

Monsters to destroy

understanding the War on Terror

Terrorism kills far fewer Americans annually than automobile accidents, firearms, or even lightning strikes. Given this minimal risk, why does the U.S. continue expending lives and treasure to fight the global war on terror? In Monsters to Destroy, Navin A. Bapat argues that the ...

The persian mirror

french reflections of the Safavid Empire in Early Modern France

The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's ...

The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age

The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the book provides coverage both of the themes that characterize ...

The Oxford Handbook of Roman studies

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary culture to our understanding of the Roman world. The emphasis is particularly upon the new ...

To stand with the Nations of the World

Japan's Meiji restoration in world history

The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It copied best practices from around the ...

Adam Smith

Almost everyone has heard of Adam Smith, founding father of modern economics and author of 'Wealth of Nations'. THere is, however, much more to him than this. This new introduction gives a crystal clear overview of the entirety of Smith's thought. It demonstrates how ...