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Un varón reivindicado y su camino hacia la presidencia de Argentina, gracias a la labor en El silencio de las tejedoras. Un hacedor, un motivador. Un varón que desteje las consecuencias del analfabetismo, que civiliza a partir de la educación y del arte. Las mujeres a su alrededor. Misioneras. Su madre, la gran tejedora que, bajo la higuera próspera y fecunda, laboraba para sostener a su familia. Hermanas. Hija. Sobrina. Nieta. Mary Mann. Juana Manso. Aurelia Vélez. Mujeres a las que Domingo Faustino Sarmiento enalteció en un contexto temporal de extremo patriarcado para que contagiaran a otras mujeres y a las personas en general; para que encontraran, en el universo del aprendizaje y del arte, el sendero hacia el progreso material y espiritual. La labor preelectoral de Mary, Juana y Aurelia fue un tejido que irguió a Sarmiento en su vocación y deseos. Como toda urdimbre, aquel telar de doña Paula fue el ejemplo que se replicó en su descendencia y en las próximas generaciones de mujeres, a través de otras tramas que profundizaron la civilización.
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Cicero has played a pivotal role in shaping Western culture. His public persona, his self-portrait as model of Roman prose, philosopher, and statesman, has exerted a durable and profound impact on the educational system and the formation of the ruling class over the centuries. Joining up with recent studies on the reception of Cicero, this volume approaches the figure of Cicero from a ‘biographical’, more than ‘philological’, perspective and considers the multiple ways by which different ages reacted to Cicero and created their ‘Ciceros’. From Cicero’s lifetime to our times, it focuses on how the image of Cicero was revisited and reworked by intellectuals and men of culture, wh...
This book investigates the properties of Latin 'verbal nouns', on the basis of data from a range of text types. Olga Spevak shows that verbal nouns, gerunds, gerundives, participles in participial clauses, and in part also infinitives, are competing expressions that form a system in which elements are partly overlapping and partly complementary.
Border control continues to be a highly contested and politically charged subject around the world. This collection of essays challenges reactionary nationalism by making the positive case for the benefits of free movement for countries on both ends of the exchange. Open Borders counters the knee-jerk reaction to build walls and close borders by arguing that there is not a moral, legal, philosophical, or economic case for limiting the movement of human beings at borders. The volume brings together essays by theorists in anthropology, geography, international relations, and other fields who argue for open borders with writings by activists who are working to make safe passage a reality on the...
Traces the intellectual life of Italy, where humanism began a century before it influenced the rest of Europe.