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Writing Teresa
Writing Teresa: The Saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesús “boom” of roughly 1880–1930, and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St. Teresa. This historical period’s interest in the Saint from Ávila relates to popularization and nationalization of aspects of Catholicism, technological advances, a modernist fascination with saintly heroes, the search for new Spanish identities, and the evolving role of women writers and intellectuals. Teresa was mysticism in its historical context, energy in a time of doubt, the possibility of reconciling science and spirituality, a new vision for writing, and a maternal figure linked to the religion of the past for those who had lost the faith of their childhood.
Philosophical Challenges of Plurality in a Global World
This book is a collection of essays by a select array of international scholars, on a range of issues concerning plurality, pluralism, and other closely related concepts, which constitute the framework and guiding thread for the whole volume. The themes and subjects dealt with here address issues of the greatest concern, particularly in the delicate context of present-day Europe and of modern societies with a global scale. The volume’s basis is the belief that pluralism, globality, technology, mass media, and computer networks are distinctive traits of contemporary society in all its complexity – and that, therefore, such notions provide essential conceptual tools for explaining and unde...
Anarchist Education and the Modern School
On October 13, 1909, Francisco Ferrer, the notorious Catalan anarchist educator and founder of the Modern School, was executed by firing squad. The Spanish government accused him of masterminding the Tragic Week rebellion, while the transnational movement that emerged in his defense argued that he was simply the founder of the groundbreaking Modern School of Barcelona. Was Ferrer a ferocious revolutionary, an ardently nonviolent pedagogue, or something else entirely? Anarchist Education and the Modern School is the first historical reader to gather together Ferrer’s writings on rationalist education, revolutionary violence, and the general strike (most translated into English for the first...
The Worlds of Positivism
This book is the first to trace the origins and significance of positivism on a global scale. Taking their cues from Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill, positivists pioneered a universal, experience-based culture of scientific inquiry for studying nature and society—a new science that would enlighten all of humankind. Positivists envisaged one world united by science, but their efforts spawned many. Uncovering these worlds of positivism, the volume ranges from India, the Ottoman Empire, and the Iberian Peninsula to Central Europe, Russia, and Brazil, examining positivism’s impact as one of the most far-reaching intellectual movements of the modern world. Positivists reinvented science, claiming it to be distinct from and superior to the humanities. They predicated political governance on their refashioned science of society, and as political activists, they sought and often failed to reconcile their universalism with the values of multiculturalism. Providing a genealogy of scientific governance that is sorely needed in an age of post-truth politics, this volume breaks new ground in the fields of intellectual and global history, the history of science, and philosophy.
Tradicionales y moderados ante la difusión de la filosofía krausista en España
La presentación de la filosofía krausista en distintas instituciones, desde universidades hasta academias, y su difusión en diversas publicaciones, constituyó un fenómeno de enorme importancia para la cultura española de la segunda mitad del ochocientos. Todo el mundo culto participó o asistió a su discusión en cátedras y ateneos, en tertulias y corrillos. Los resultados de esta investigación arrojan algo de luz sobre la compresión que de la filosofía krausista se forjaron distintos sectores de la inteligencia española decimonónica, en concreto, ideólogos intrasigentes y moderados de la segunda mitad de siglo.
Pasajes de infancia
¿Qué supone realmente recordar? ¿Cómo puede la infancia, con sus enigmas y teorías absurdas, convertirse en una vía hacia el entendimiento de nuestra existencia? La infancia, como enseñó el psicoanálisis, es un continente nebuloso, pero fértil, donde el recuerdo puede dejar de ser una simple evocación para convertirse en una forma renovada de conocimiento. En Pasajes de infancia. A propósito de Walter Benjamin, el profesor José Manuel Vázquez-Romero nos invita a explorar ese terreno con una mirada profundamente humana, inspirada, o incluso podría decirse mimetizada, en las reflexiones de Benjamin y otros aportes de grandes figuras como Proust, Kafka, Adorno o Baudelaire. Este ...
Franco Lives On
Franco Lives On traces the birth of democracy in Spain in 1978 after forty years under Franco's dictatorship. It reveals the hidden side of what happened during the Spanish Transition. This study is the key to understanding the opaque workings of justice and the incapability of dialogue shown by the political powers in Madrid in recent years in response to challenges such as the referendum in Catalonia or the demise of ETA. What became of Franco's ministers after the arrival of the new Spanish Constitution? Were they driven out of the corridors of power or did they stay there and add to their wealth and political influence? The answers can be found in this book, which spotlights how the political elite in Spain have lacked the capacity for renewal seen in other European Union States. The author, Lluc Salellas i Vilar, has produced an extensive piece of investigative journalism on the families and individuals who wielded greatest influence during the dictatorship and the role which they and their relatives have continued to play ever since.
Estatuto jurídico de las lenguas de señas en el derecho español
Esta monografía desvela la situación jurídica actual de las personas con discapacidad auditiva, analizando temas importantísimos para que las personas discapacitadas puedan desenvolverse en la sociedad con la misma naturalidad y efectividad que el resto de los ciudadanos. Los autores aportan ideas que permitan a las personas con discapacidad auditiva ejercer con plenitud los derechos que les reconocen las normas publicadas en el Boletín Oficial del Estado.
Los caballeros de la razón. Cultura institucionista y democracia parlamentaria en la España liberal
Los caballeros de la razónes un acercamiento a la diversidad de manifestaciones que en la España liberal desarrolló la cultura institucionista. Desde sus fundamentos krausistas, el institucionismo, contemplado en su más amplia dimensión cultural, atendió a una diversidad de frentes –economía, sociedad, cultura, política, religión, moral…– desde los cuales intentó llevar a cabo una reforma general de España, que políticamente se tradujo en la defensa de una democracia parlamentaria. El libro va desgranando estos campos a través de capítulos específicos sobre sus fundamentos filosóficos, relaciones entre religión y política, la concepción sobre el Estado y la nación, la recepción del nuevo liberalismo, los componentes regeneradores de su programa político y social, su papel como intelectuales, y, de forma específica, las relaciones políticas que desarrollaron desde el Sexenio Democrático hasta la Guerra Civil.
