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Lo que somos de los clásicos: espej(ism)os de la Antigüedad
Desde estrategias deliberadamente anacrónicas, en este libro se analizan y conciben metonimias, metáforas y analogías en las experiencias de las sociedades contemporáneas, nuevas aproximaciones a la Antigüedad y a nuestra época.
Nietzsche actual: reflexiones ineludibles sobre un clásico intempestivo
Este libro retoma aquel empuje crítico del pensamiento nietzscheano en cuanto efecto de turbulencia: para agitar así las bases de aquello erigido como comunidad pretendidamente civilizada, ordenadora del mundo y constructora de futuro.
Ours to Hack and to Own
Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive. Here, for the first time in one volume, are some of the most cogent thinkers and doers on the subject of the cooptation of the Internet, and how we can resist and reverse the process. The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance. The on-demand economy is reversing the rights and protections workers fought for centuries to win. Ordinary Internet users, meanwhile, retain little control over their personal data. W...
La fascinación del deporte: cuerpo, práctica, juego y espectáculo
¿Por qué el deporte es tan relevante en nuestros días? Ya sea pensada como un ejercicio espiritual, ritual o valoral, la práctica corporal es una constante en las culturas humanas. La actividad deportiva moderna tiene perspectivas únicas, reflexionar sobre ellos es el objetivo de los 19 trabajos que conforman La fascinación del deporte: cuerpo, práctica, juego y espectáculo. La primera, de las dos secciones, se enfoca a la actividad física: ¿cuándo comenzamos a valorar el ejercicio físico como algo benéfico en sí mismo, óptimo para el bienestar personal y social? ¿Se pueden apropiar prácticas corporales de otras culturas despojándolas de su contenido espiritual? ¿Cómo se ...
Lecturas de la Fenomenología del espíritu de Hegel
Con el propósito de comenzar un diálogo, presentamos en este libro una serie de ensayos sobre la Fenomenología del espíritu de Hegel. Nueve ensayos sobre cada una de las secciones de esta obra.
Pollinators and Pollination
A unique and personal insight into the ecology and evolution of pollinators, their relationships with flowers, and their conservation in a rapidly changing world. The pollination of flowers by insects, birds and other animals is a fundamentally important ecological function that supports both the natural world and human society. Without pollinators to facilitate the sexual reproduction of plants, the world would be a biologically poorer place in which to live, there would be an impact on food security, and human health would suffer. Written by one of the world’s leading pollination ecologists, this book provides an introduction to what pollinators are, how their interactions with flowers h...
The Myth of Mondragon
This is the first critical account of the internationally renowned Mondragon cooperatives of the Basque region of Spain. The Mondragon cooperatives are seen as the leading alternative model to standard industrial organization; they are considered to be the most successful example of democratic decision making and worker ownership. However, the author argues that the vast scholarly and popular literature on Mondragon idealizes the cooperatives by falsely portraying them as apolitical institutions and by ignoring the experiences of shop floor workers. She shows how this creation of an idealized image of the cooperatives is part of a new global ideology that promotes cooperative labor-management relations in order to discredit labor unions and working-class organizations; this constitutes what she calls the "myth" of Mondragon.
Cyber-Humans
It is predicted that robots will surpass human intelligence within the next fifty years. The ever increasing speed of advances in technology and neuroscience, coupled with the creation of super computers and enhanced body parts and artificial limbs, is paving the way for a merger of both human and machine. Devices which were once worn on the body are now being implanted into the body, and as a result, a class of true cyborgs, who are displaying a range of skills beyond those of normal humans-beings, are being created. There are cyborgs which can see colour by hearing sound, others have the ability to detect magnetic fields, some are equipped with telephoto lenses to aid their vision or impla...
Lagoa Santa Karst: Brazil's Iconic Karst Region
This book discusses the Lagoa Santa Karst, which has been internationally known since the pioneering studies of the Danish naturalist Peter Lund in the early 1800s. It covers the speleogenesis, geology, vegetation, fauna, hydrogeology, geomorphology, and anthropogenic use of the Lagoa Santa Karst and is the first English-language book on this major karst area. The area, which has been at the heart of the debate on the origin and age of human colonization in the Americas, is characterized by a classical and scenic karst landscape with limestone cliffs, karst lakes and karst plains, in addition to numerous solution dolines. More than 1,000 caves have been documented in the area, many with significant archeological and paleontological value. Despite its great importance, the Lagoa Santa Karst faces severe environmental threats due to limestone mining and the expansion of the metropolis of Belo Horizonte and its surrounding towns. The growing recognition of the area’s remarkable significance has led to increasing concern, and a number of protected areas have now been established, improving the conservation status of this landmark karst area.
A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
In A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Christian Delacampagne reviews the discipline's divergent and dramatic course and shows that its greatest figures, even the most unworldly among them, were deeply affected by events of their time. From Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose famous Tractatus was actually composed in the trenches during World War I, to Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger—one who found himself barred from public life with Hitler's coming to power, the other a member of the Nazi party who later refused to repudiate German war crimes. From Bertrand Russell, whose lifelong pacifism led him to turn from logic and mathematics to social and moral questions, and Jean-Paul Sartre, who made philosophy an occasion for direct and personal political engagement, to Rudolf Carnap, a committed socialist, and Karl Popper, a resolute opponent of Communism. From the Vienna Circle and the Frankfurt School to the contemporary work of philosophers as variously minded as Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, and Hilary Putnam. The thinking of these philosophers, and scores of others, cannot be understood without being placed in the context of the times in which they lived.
