Con oficio y destreza de artesana María Elena Barral ha logrado reconstruir una historia que hasta hace poco habría sido siquiera imposible de imaginar.
Lejos de los pronosticos apocaliticos del siglo pasado que planteaban la progresiva desaparicion de lo religioso en el marco de la creciente racionalizacion y secularizacion de la sociedad moderna, lo religioso ha emergido a traves de multiples manifestaciones demostrando su persistencia, a la vez que exteriorizando tanto perspectivas novedosas como reafirmando planteos tradicionalistas y fuertemente fundamentalistas.
Este libro recoge un discurso en Harvard sobre lo mas caracteristico del oficio intelectual, y una conferencia en la Universidad de Marquette, donde el autor argumenta sobre la importancia de la historia del pensamiento en la ensenanza general de la filosofia.
Las reflexiones identitarias en plena era de la globalización, los desencuentros en torno a la cuestión nacional o las posibles fórmulas políticas e institucionales son dimensiones ineludibles de nuestro presente.
The inside story of the campaign that rocked the United Kingdom to its foundations, and the implications of the Scottish independence movement for the future of British politics.
Critique of Judgement Immanuel Kant - In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of art and nature, the role of imagination, genius and originality, the limits of representation and the connection between morality and the aesthetic.
La emergencia de regímenes autoritarios durante las dos últimas décadas constituyó un importante desafío a la tradicional práctica social de la Iglesia Católica latinoamericana.
A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from its leading scholar and 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph)The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their history.
Wie tief die Weltreligion des Islam gespalten ist in verschiedene Glaubensrichtungen oder ›Bekenntnisse‹, steht der ganzen Welt aktuell im Irak besonders eindrücklich vor Augen, wenn sich in Bürgerkriegen oder zwischenstaatlichen Kriegen im Nahen Osten die Fronten allzu oft nach diesen konfessionellen Gräben ausrichten.
Tourists killed in Tunisia, Jihadi John targeted by drone strikes, carnage in Paris and hundreds of thousands of Syrians risking everything to reach Europe in an attempt to escape the violence.
Esta obra, junto con los títulos Nacionalismo: a favor y en contra, y Autodeterminación y secesión completa un estimulante enfoque sobre los nacionalismos.
In this remarkable book, Belfast-born Derek Lundy uses the lives of three of his ancestors as a prism through which to examine what memory and the selective plundering of history has made of the truth in Northern Ireland.
When Sheelu was arrested for stealing from a powerful politician in the notoriously crooked region of Uttar Pradesh, she was sure that she would be forced to accept a prison sentence, not least because she had alleged that she had been assaulted by a man in the politician's household.
After fifteen weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, God's Politics not only changed the conversation about faith and politics in this country, it began a movement.
Tourists killed in Tunisia, Jihadi John targeted by drone strikes, carnage in Paris and hundreds of thousands of Syrians risking everything to reach Europe in an attempt to escape the violence.
Islam has become a potent political force around the world since it reemerged in the late 1960's and 1970's as a religio-political alternative to failed nationalist ideologies.
The purpose of putting this book in your hands is to communicate to you the value and strength that must sustain you through this period of transition in which we find ourselves, as well as to reveal something of the solid and healthy foundation on which it is built the future of the Incoming Age.
