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Ver el mundo con claridad

Diarios y cartas (1914-1939)

Ver el mundo con claridad nos sumerge en la mente brillante y turbulenta de uno de los filósofos más influyentes del siglo XX. A través de sus diarios personales y parte de su correspondencia, este libro configura un retrato íntimo de Wittgenstein, quien vivió con ...

Estudios sobre Spinoza y los filósofos de la época clásica

Tomo I: Ética, Antropología, Política, Religión

La obra de Alexandre Matheron sobre Spinoza y los filósofos de la Época Clásica es uno de los puntos culminantes de la escuela francesa de historia de la filosofía. Tras "Individu et Communauté chez Spinoza" y "Le Christ et le salut des ignorants", los estudios ...

La violación sistemática de derechos en Cuba

El caso de la 'Primavera Negra'

Violación sistemática derechos en Cuba. El caso de la «Primavera Negra» Este libro repasa aspectos de la historia de los últimos setenta años en Cuba. Desde del inicio de la resistencia armada popular contra el dictador Fulgencio Batista, pasando por el establecimiento de un nuevo ...

Republicanistas: de Philip Pettit a Michael Sandel

Una alternativa a la actual política americana

La república, definida como comunidad política bien gobernada, entiende que el gobierno priorizará el bien común sobre los intereses particulares, pero también contiene un ideal que ha vuelto a revitalizarse desde finales del siglo XX. Estos dos autores representan bien ese proyecto, su comparación es ...

Inteligencia Artificial y humanismo

Las voces de la universidad y la empresa

La penetración de la IA en la estructuración de la vida sociedad y personal es imparable. Ya está presente en áreas vitales para las personas y la sociedad como medicina, energía, reconocimiento facial o educación. Todo ello ha conllevado un gran recelo y preocupación. Desde ...

Empire, incorporated

the corporations that built British colonialism

Across four centuries and multiple continents, british colonialism was above all the business of corporations. Corporations conceived, promoted, financed, and governed overseas expansion, making claims over territory and peoples while ensuring that british and colonial society were invested, quite literally, in their ventures. The corporation ...

A fractured liberation

Korea under US occupation

A poignant return to Korea's forgotten "Asian Spring"-a moment ripe with possibility denied by the postwar US military occupation. When Japanese imperial rule ended in August 1945, the Korean peninsula erupted with hopes that had been bottled up for forty years. New mother ...

The writer´s lot

culture and revolution in eighteenth-century France

A pioneering social history of French writers during the Age of Revolution, from a world-renowned scholar and National Book Critics Circle Award winner. In eighteenth-century France, writers emerged as a new kind of power. They stirred passions, shaped public opinion, and helped topple the Bourbon ...

Not thinking like a liberal

Liberalism is so amorphous and pervasive that for many people it is background noise. But there are nooks and crannies in every society where the prevailing winds don't blow. Raymond Geuss grew up some distance from the cultural mainstream and recounts here the unusual ...

The Cherokees

in war and at peace, 1670-1840

A sweeping new history reveals how the Cherokees became a nation as they navigated a century and a half of intertribal conflicts and colonial expansion that threatened their way of life. For more than 150 years between their first encounters with the English in the ...

Illumino

a history of medieval Britain in 12 illuminated manuscripts

Incandescent with illustrations, a history of Britain as told through a remarkable collection of illuminated manuscripts-at once chronicles of their time and works of art. Illumino explores the history of medieval Britain through the biographies of twelve remarkable illuminated manuscripts and their creators. Each manuscript ...

Ghosts, trolls and the hidden people

an anthology of Icelandic folk legends

This unique and enchanting book opens the door to a captivating world of Icelandic folk legends. The six chapters of this anthology are each based on a different setting: farm, wilderness, darkness, church, ocean and shore. It provides translated tales from the nineteenth and twentieth ...

Hans Memling and the Merchants

Emigrating from southern Germany in the late fifteenth century, painter Hans Memling sought success in Bruges, which was a vibrant commercial hub at the time. Rather than among the nobility or ecclesiastical institutions, instead he found his audience in the new urban middle class of ...

Alexander the Great

lives and legacies

This book offers a fresh perspective on the reign of Alexander the Great. It re-examines Alexander's military victories and personality, while also exploring the impact of his campaigns on the people he conquered. Alexander's story, Stephen Harrison argues, is one that includes the ...

Who am I to judge?

judicial craft versus constitutional theory

A leading legal scholar asks a fundamental question: Do we need a theory of constitutional interpretation? Do we need a theory of constitutional interpretation? It is a common argument among originalists that however objectionable you may find their theory, at least they have one, whereas ...

A great disorder

national myth and the battle for America

Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two different countries, with wildly diverging views of why government exists and who counts as American. Their ideologies are grounded in different versions of American history, endorsing irreconcilable visions of patriotism and national identity ...

Immigration Detention Inc.

the big business of locking up migrants

The United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52,000 by 2019. While the most vociferous anti-immigrant rhetoric may be attributed to Republicans, US ...

Democratic elitism

the founding myth of American political science

Do competitive elections secure democracy, or might they undermine it by breeding popular disillusionment with liberal norms and procedures? The so-called Italian School of Elitism, comprising Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, and Robert Michels, voiced this very concern. They feared that defining democracy exclusively through representative ...

Los mártires de Pinto

La vida religiosa en Pinto a comienzos del s. XX

El pueblo de Pinto, situado a veinte kilómetros de Madrid, experimentó una serie de cambios (políticos, económicos, sociales, ideológicos) a comienzos del s. XX. Y también sufrió, como todo el país, una fratricida guerra civil. Una veintena de personas fue asesinada entre julio y noviembre ...

Criminal justice in divided America

police, punishment, and the future of our democracy

How a broken criminal justice system has fueled the crisis of American democracy, and how we can address both problems together. American criminal justice is in crisis. Prisons are swollen, confidence in police has plummeted, and race- and class-based biases distort every aspect of the ...