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Comprender el mundo

En esta charla dirigida a niños y niñas (y por extensión, a la infancia que habita todavía en los adultos), Delphine Horvilleur cuestiona cómo entendemos el mundo y, en consecuencia, cómo lo relatamos. Los rabinos comprenden profundamente la importancia de contar historias, y por ello ...

Dominio

¿Qué tienen en común el deseo erótico y la experiencia cercana a la muerte? En esta novela autobiográfica Claudina Domingo narra dos momentos vitales. Por un lado se encuentra la adolescente que, en sus ansias por abandonar la niñez, se obsesiona con el placer sexual ...

La materia del sonido

Once autores que han centrado su actividad creativa en la música, la literatura, la poesía o el ensayo examinan las manifestaciones del sonido en el arte y el pensamiento contemporáneos. ¿Dónde están los límites sensoriales, filosóficos y sociales de lo sonoro? ¿Y cómo ese flujo ...

Los 'Tres ensayos de teoría sexual' de Sigmund Freud

Una lectura

Aunque -Tres ensayos de teoría sexual- sea considerado como un texto fundacional para el psicoanálisis, hasta cierto punto sigue permaneciendo -desconocido-. En este libro presentado por el filósofo y psicoanalista belga, Philippe Van Haute, y el filósofo neerlandés, Herman Westerink, la teoría de la sexualidad ...

Género sin identidad

"Género sin identidad" ofrece una innovadora teoría sobre la formación del género que en ocasiones puede resultar inquietante. Basado en la metapsicología de Jean Laplanche y en conversación con los trabajos audaces de los estudios queer y trans, Avgi Saketopoulou y Ann Pellegrini proponen que ...

Medios calientes

Las imágenes en al era del calor

Hito Steyerl, una de las artistas y pensadoras más desafiantes de nuestro tiempo, ofrece en -Medios calientes- una serie de ensayos escritos entre 2017 y 2024 que capturan un momento decisivo: la irrupción de la inteligencia artificial generativa, la expansión de la economía blockchain y ...

Trastorno de conversión

Trastorno de conversión ofrece una manera novedosa de repensar el presente, sobre todo en los ámbitos profundos de la clínica psicoanalítica. Tomando en cuenta la cantidad de personas que sufren hoy en día de dolencias psicosomáticas inexplicables, mientras que otros buscan refugio en tratamientos farmacológicos ...

The world of Homer

archaeology, social memory, and the emergence of Greek epic poetry

Epic poetry, notably the Iliad and the Odyssey, stands as one of the most enduring legacies of ancient Greece. Although the impact of these epics on Western civilization is widely recognized, their origins remain the subject of heated debate. Were they composed in a single ...

Central Europe

the death of a civilization and the life of an idea

An absorbing journey through a region caught between history, geography and ideology. What is 'Central Europe'? Where do its borders lie? Does it even exist? Attempts to define it usually yield more questions than answers. But perhaps the wrong questions are being asked. Luka Ivan ...

Unbroken chains

a 5,000-year history of African enslavement

A new, full history of slavery in Africa, from the Pharaohs to the present. Slavery has ravaged African societies since at least 2,500 BCE, from Egypt to the Cape; from Mauritania to Somalia. Most writing covers just one fraction of this history: the horrors ...

So you want to own Greenland?

lessons from the Vikings to Trump

An indispensable guide to Greenland-why it matters, who covets it and why this wilderness of 56,000 inhabitants could become the next global flashpoint. Greenland is no ordinary island. From its discovery by Norsemen to its contemporary strategic significance, it has been a frontier for ...

Colonialism devours itself

the waning of Françafrique

France is the only country that never decolonised its colonies, emotionally, financially or strategically. In the aftermath of losing the Second World War, notwithstanding de Gaulle's attempts to convince his people otherwise, the French knew the game was up. (The Resistance fighters were heroes ...

The Cameroon war

a history of French neocolonialism in Africa

Legend has it that the end of France's empire in sub-Saharan Africa was a peaceful affair. This book tells a very different story, exposing the shocking violence of a secret war. Its theater was Cameroon in the 1950s and '60s, where a mass movement ...

Ocean

a history of the Atlantic before Columbus

Ocean is an ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic Ocean, a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, which provided a template for ...

Domination

the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity

This is the story of the fall of an Empire – and the rise of another. Who spread Christianity, how, and why? In her quest to find the answer, Professor Alice Roberts takes us on a gripping investigative journey. From a secluded valley in south Wales ...

Sparta

the rise and fall of an ancient superpower

'There are few bits of history more mythologised, sensitive and political than Sparta, but luckily we have Bayliss' Dan Snow, creator of History Hit Sparta - its legendary warriors and steadfast resilience are famous throughout the world as a model for toughness, justice and masculinity. The ...

The life and death of King Richard III

With a new introduction and concluding chapter from bestselling medieval author Dan Jones. Richard III is one of the most mysterious figures in English history, and as such is the source of perennial fascination. Comparatively little is known of his early life, his appearance, his ...

The blood in winter

a nation descends, 1642

After years of tension between a king and his people, in 1641 England reaches a semblance of peace. Armies have disbanded, legislation has passed to ensure Parliament will continue to sit, and the people are tentatively optimistic. Radical politicians congratulate themselves on a stunning political ...

Anomalías = Anomalies

de la arquitectura contemporánea = Of contemporary architecture

Anomalías examina las fracturas del paradigma arquitectónico contemporáneo a través de una mirada crítica, sin nostalgias ni dogmas. El libro no busca ofrecer respuestas cerradas, sino cartografiar desplazamientos, tensiones y emergencias que desbordan las categorías tradicionales del diseño. A lo largo de sus capítulos, se ...

The Old English Catholic homilies : the first series

(Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library)

A contemporary edition and translation of one of the great monuments of Old English literary and religious culture. The homilies of the monk Ælfric, written in the last decade of the tenth century, offer some of the most important prose writing in Old English. They ...