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Migrating Minds
Awarded the 2023 "René Wellek Prize for the Best Edited Essay Collection" by the American Comparative Literature Association, Migrating Minds contributes to the prominent interdisciplinary domain of Cosmopolitan Studies with 20 innovative essays by humanities scholars from all over the world that re-examine theories and practices of cosmopolitanism from a variety of perspectives. The volume satisfies the need for a stronger involvement of Comparative and World Literatures and Cultures, Translation, and Education Theories in this crucial debate, and also proposes an experimental way to explore in depth the necessity of a cosmopolitan method as well as the riches of cosmopolitan representatio...
Jesuits at the Margins
In the past decades historians have interpreted early modern Christian missions not simply as an adjunct to Western imperialism, but a privileged field for cross-cultural encounters. Placing the Jesuit missions into a global phenomenon that emphasizes economic and cultural relations between Europe and the East, this book analyzes the possibilities and limitations of the religious conversion in the Micronesian islands of Guåhan (or Guam) and the Northern Marianas. Frontiers are not rigid spatial lines separating culturally different groups of people, but rather active agents in the transformation of cultures. By bringing this local dimension to the fore, the book adheres to a process of missionary “glocalization” which allowed Chamorros to enter the international community as members of Spain’s regional empire and the global communion of the Roman Catholic Church.
Reading Hume on the Principles of Morals
Hume's Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals is one of the landmark works in the history of moral philosophy; this volume presents a section-by-section study of the work in the form of new interpretative essays by leading Hume scholars. The result is a comprehensive reassessment of Hume's 'recasting' of his moral philosophy in this work. Particular attention is given to the Enlightenment concepts of justice and benevolence, as well as to the concept of humanity and moral sentiment. Fifteen original chapters take the reader through the nine sections and four appendices of Hume's Enquiry, as well as 'A Dialogue, ' to assess critically the moral philosophy he presents. How does it differ from the moral philosophy of the Treatise, and how should we understand the significance of the arguments he advances? Additional chapters examine the relation between Hume's mature moral philosophy and related subjects such as his epistemology, his writings on religion, beauty and criticism, the passions, and his own intellectual and philosophical development during the period in which he conceived and wrote the Enquiry.
Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions and Missionaries in Oceania (1668–1945)
This essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today’s Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Although the Jesuit missionaries wanted to reach Japan and other Pacific islands, such as the Palau and Caroline archipelagos, the crown encouraged them to stay in the Marianas until 1769 (when the Society of Jesus was expelled from the Philippines) to evangelize the native Chamorros as well as to reinforce the Spanish presence on the fringes of the Pacific empire. In 1859, a group of Jesuit missionaries returned to the Philippines, but they never officially set foot on the Marianas during the nineteenth century. It was not until the twentieth century that they went back to Micronesia, taking charge of the mission on the Northern Marianas along with the Caroline and Marshall Islands, thus returning to one of the cradles of Jesuit martyrdom in Oceania.
Overheard in Seville 2015
An annual publication, Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society includes scholarly articles on American philosopher, poet, critic, and best-selling novelist George Santayana as well as announcements of publications and meetings pertaining to Santayana scholarship.
The Philosopher's Index
Vols. for 1969- include a section of abstracts.
La idea de corrupción en los siglos XVIII y XIX
El interés por analizar el fenómeno universal de la corrupción no ha dejado de crecer en los últimos tiempos. A su estudio se han dedicado varias disciplinas y, entre ellas, la Historia de las Ideas y la Teoría Política no se han quedado al margen. Como todos los conceptos políticos, el de "corrupción" es en gran medida una construcción social que varía con el tiempo y el lugar, por lo que su percepción y significado no han sido siempre los mismos. No son idénticas, por ejemplo, la idea de corrupción clásica y la moderna, pues para los modernos el advenimiento de la sociedad comercial produciría un nuevo tipo de corrupción (el que se debe a la influencia de la riqueza y el di...
Deshacer la vida
En los últimos años la biografía rompió lazos con la historia, transgredió la premisa biológica de un despliegue cronológico, entendió que no hay totalidad sino más bien versiones hechas de fragmentos, superó todo complejo de inferioridad compositiva ante la ficción y hasta pagó el precio de cierta indiferencia académica para transformarse, indudablemente, con el tiempo, en una discusión por venir para la teoría literaria. Sin embargo, dicha discusión se da por la presencia misma de la vida como objeto antes que por las formas que hacen de esta una narración. Aun cuando la parodia de su procedimiento deviene en una analítica exacerbada –a cada biógrafo su biografía: literaria, intelectual, mediática, sensacionalista, según el temperamento que lo gane– habría que señalar que, al fin y al cabo, la pregunta es siempre la misma: ¿cómo se escribe una vida? Y tal pregunta supone también una experiencia de la forma capaz de contarla.
La civilización femenista
El feminismo, más que una tendencia circunstancial, es una corriente con entidad civilizatoria, esto es, un conjunto de ideas y valores capaces de definir un nuevo sistema de relaciones de poder, de organización social y de los roles que rigen la cultura, las mentalidades y el comportamiento de los sexos.
Amelia Valcárcel retoma en este libro la genealogía fundamental del movimiento por la igualdad y la plena ciudadanía de las mujeres: sus distintas etapas, sus obras seminales y sus conceptos centrales. En una fundamentada síntesis sostenida por una extensa carrera académica, Valcárcel contextualiza este avance civilizatorio, clarificando el debate sobre cuál es la agenda ...
