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If Michel Onfray has decided to rescue the cynical philosophers in this book, it is due to the fact that our age has a lot to learn from them. It is of paramount importance that new cynics appear, and set about on the task to tear off the masks, to denounce swindles and destroy the mythologies created by our current society. A task that has nothing to do with "ordinary cynicism," so frequent in social discourses, which subordinates action to pure efficacy and pragmatism.
The book presents various investigation into 20th-century European dictatorships, with its focus on Franco`s dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War. Francisco Franco’s dictatorship in Spain (1936/1939-1975/1978) was a modern form of authoritarianism, with a strong totalitarian period, like many other dictatorships of the time. Francoism occupies a place in history alongside other different dictatorships of its age, and a comparative analysis might prove to be a powerful tool in order to understand how, in the middle of the 20th century, such a repressive and authoritarian form of political control emerged. One of the most forgotten fascisms, which at the same time was influenced by and inf...
Combining text with practical exercises and discussion questions to stimulate readers, this textbook covers a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the Spanish Language and its role in societies around the world.