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The Struggle for Catalonia
Analyses with rare impartiality what sets the Catalans apart from Spain, and how the separatist debate is playing out.
The Economics of Catalan Separatism
This book analyses the economic consequences of the regional government of Catalonia's challenge to democracy and the rule of law in Spain. This process, started in 2010, culminated in a coup d'état in the autumn of 2017. The book has three parts. First: The circumstances behind the challenge: economic structure, social and political aspects. Second: The economic impacts of the resulting huge political instability and social polarisation, and the downturn in GDP, investment, competitiveness, Barcelona's appeal, and flight of companies and banks to Madrid. Third: Independence would mean collapse of trade with the rest of Spain and the EU, expulsion from the eurozone, fall of GDP, plummeting tax revenue, soaring unemployment and, finally, conversion of this hypothetical new Catalonia into a failed, vassal and totalitarian state. This book is destined to be the foremost work of reference on the consequences of the separatist threat to Spain, including Catalonia's current decline.
The Authentic Gospel of Jesus
There can be no doubt that Jesus, 'a religious genius' as Geza Vermes describes him, lived and taught in Palestine some 2000 years ago. The influence he has had is incalculable. How though can we distinguish between the doctrines shaped to the needs of the burgeoning Christian church and the original views laid out by Jesus himself? How can we dig back through the additions, misinterpretations and confusions of later writers and two millennia of tradition to get back to the authentic gospel of Jesus? In his new book, Vermes subjects all the sayings of Jesus to brilliantly informed scrutiny. The result is a book of unique value and novelty--scraping aside the accretions of centuries to come as close as we can hope to be to the true Jesus.
The Story of Jesus According to L
Using stylistic, formal and thematic criteria, Paffenroth reconstructs a pre-Lukan source (L) for much of the unique material in Luke 3-19. This source portrays Jesus primarily as a healer and teller of parables, a portrayal very different from that of the suffering Son of Man in Mark, the aphoristic teacher of Wisdom in Q, or the depiction of Jesus as universal saviour that Luke himself prefers. This source is quite primitive, probably earlier than Mark, perhaps as early as Q, to which it is quite similar in form, if not content.
Jesus in Isolation
In this world of illness and isolation, distancing and death, making sense of suffering has never been of more critical importance. Jesus in Isolation invites us to Bethany to witness the illness of Jesus's best friend, the spiritual isolation of both Jesus and Lazarus's sisters (Martha and Mary), and Lazarus's cruel and untimely death from an unseen illness, as well as Jesus's unexplained absence as he distanced from his friends and missed the funeral. Yet upon his late arrival, Jesus announced the glory of God had been revealed in the midst of the isolation, the distancing, and even death. He does this by proclaiming himself as "Resurrection and Life" and by absorbing into himself all the suffering and grief of his friends. Join Jesus, Lazarus, and his sisters on a journey through the great issues of our time as they encounter devastating illness, unanswered prayer, the abandonment of God, senseless suffering, cruel death, spiritual isolation, and deep disappointment. But notice when Jesus does arrive on the scene as "Resurrection and Life," the world as God intended is made available to each of them--and also to us.
La lengua retorcida
He aquí un inagotable suministro de ocurrencias en el uso cotidiano de la lengua española, sabrosos episodios de su historia, manipulaciones de los incansables separatistas, ridiculeces de políticos y otros pedantes... Y lo más grave: perversas ingenierías lingüísticas de quienes, en España y en todo el mundo, pretenden imponer su tiranía mediante la censura de palabras e ideas. Y de postre, una sorprendente recopilación de esas meteduras de pata que cometemos todos los hispanohablantes, caudalosa fuente de despistes, genialidades y picardías promovidas desde hace siglos por el diablejo Titivillus. Aunque los asuntos aquí tratados sean todo menos irrelevantes, La lengua retorcida es tan enemigo de la corrección política, tan irreverente con los dogmas de la modernidad, tan incisivo y tan divertido que el lector acabará llorando de risa. ¡Y tanto en prosa como en verso! «Ya habrás comprendido, amigo lector, que te vas a embaular un libro destornillante. Así que ponte cómodo en tu butaca favorita y prepárate a disfrutar, que es gratis». —Amando de Miguel
Politics of Debt and Europe's Relations with the 'South'
Combining a discussion of the multi-layered European and global North-South divide with an effort to retrieve alternatives to the dominant divisive use of debt as staking out claims against another party, this text explores the consequences of the erasure of historical temporality in the recent period of 'globalization' and 'individualization' as well as new registers for political uses of the past under current conditions. It draws on socio-political, moral-philosophical and literary-artistic analyses, tracing the genealogy of debt through European history.
A New Life of Jesus
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Adiós, España
Nueva edición. «Adiós, España es el más completo compendio crítico o guía sobre la mayoría de estos problemas que haya aparecido nunca en un solo libro (...) Merece la pena ser ampliamente leído si se quiere comprender el trasfondo histórico y la construcción de algunos de los temas que tanta controversia han causado en los últimos años».(Stanley G. Payne, autor del prólogo) «El libro del año podría ser éste. Hacía muchísimo tiempo que alguien no volcaba tanta erudición crítica, tanto sentido común, en un tema que sin duda ocupará los próximos años de la vida política española».(El Submarino, La Razón) «A partir de las primeras páginas Jesús Laínz engancha ...
