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Between the Icon and the Idol
The totalitarian state clearly intends to eliminate all those forms of organic community that rival the absolute loyalty of the individual to the state. This god is a jealous god. . . . Mrowczy?ski-Van Allen's diagnosis is therefore no less relevant after the fall of the Berlin Wall. And his proposed cure is no less salutary. He appeals to the work of Grossman and other voices from the East to oppose the idolatry of the deified self with the icon, which opens up a distance in which giving and forgiving can occur. Eastern voices are so helpful because they refuse to quarantine theological questions; the borders between theology, politics, and literature are fluid and porous, because they are all a part of an integrated life. The holism of totalitarianism must be opposed by another kind of holism that replaces the idol with the icon. At the same time, the aspiration of secularism to separate politics from theology, and power from love, must be opposed by a politics based on an opening of human persons to God and to each other, the kind of self-donation found in Grossman, and for Christians, on the Cross. --From the Foreword by William T. Cavanaugh
The Influence of Mikhail Bakhtin on the Formation and Development of the Yale School of Deconstruction
This book explores the origins of American literary deconstruction in the light of the work of Russian philosopher Mikhail M. Bakhtin. To do so, the author offers a comparative reading of Bakhtin’s work and that of the literary critics who formed the so-called Yale School of Deconstruction: namely, Paul de Man, J. Hillis Miller, Harold Bloom, and Geoffrey Hartman. By resorting to Bakhtin’s challenging understanding of the dialogical nature of the world and his reworking of the notion of temporality in the literary work of art, the readings offered in this book provide the reader with a new point of departure for one of the most influential movements in twentieth century literary theory: literary deconstruction.
Silver Age and After: Repressed Russian Poets, Artists and Philosophers during the Soviet Period
The details of the Jewish Holocaust have become part of our history through the testimony of those who survived the death camps. The details of Lenin’s and Stalin’s reign of terror are far less known because they took place behind a wall of secrecy, and because survivors have been loath to speak about them for fear of retribution. This is an encompassing volume presenting an intense display, as complete as can be, of poets, artists, musicians, and philosophers and intellectual actors implicated in different aspects of Russian life roughly through the period 1900-1960. They were people who had lived under the Soviet regime in times of peace and in times of war, from the Red Terror through...
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At His Side
"I wish to restore to public memory certain features of a man endowed with great goodness of spirit, a passionate interest in people, and a miraculous gift for depicting them". So begins Pirozhkova's memoir of her life with Isaac Babel, perhaps the Soviet Union's greatest writer, and one of the literary world's most lively and endearing characters. Photos.
The Mexican Transition
This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the political process, electoral struggles, and critical junctures. They were written at different points in time and even though they have been corrected and adapted, they have kept the tension and fervour with which they were originally created. They provide the reader with a vision of what goes on behind those horrifying images that depict Mexico as a country plagued by narcotrafficking groups and subjected to unbridled homicidal violence. These images hide the complex political reality of the country and the accidents and shocks democracy has suffered.
La bondad insensata
En los momentos más oscuros de la historia de la humanidad –desde el Holocausto hasta el totalitarismo soviético y las dictaduras más recientes–, ha habido hombres que han tenido la valentía de asumir una responsabilidad personal respecto al mal y que se han prodigado en actos de bondad extrema. ¿Cuál es el resorte que les ha impulsado a una bondad aparentemente insensata? Para Hannah Arendt es la salvaguardia de la propia autoestima y dignidad, mientras que para Vasili Grossman es un antídoto frente al supuesto bien ideológico. Gabriele Nissim nos cuenta su historia, la de esas personas corrientes que han llevado a cabo actos ejemplares, a las que ha podido localizar gracias al trabajo, entre otros, de Moshe Bejski, presidente de la Comisión de los justos, y al mismo tiempo nos ofrece una reflexión sobre el bien y sobre la bondad frente al mal extremo, a través de la contribución de los grandes pensadores del siglo XX que han abordado este tema.
Investigar la historia de la corrupción: conceptos, fuentes y métodos
Estudiar la corrupción constituye una fuente de inspiración sobre las transformaciones experimentadas en el ejercicio del poder, así como sobre las concepciones e ideales del buen gobierno y de la reputación política existentes en cada sociedad. El libro que el lector tiene en las manos es el resultado de la iniciativa que tuvo el grupo de investigación SGR PICEC (Política, Instituciones y Corrupción en la Época Contemporánea) para la edición de las Jornadas Doctorales de 2020, organizadas por la comisión de doctorado del programa Historia Comparada, Política y Social de la UAB. La Jornadas tuvieron lugar en plena pandemia de la COVID-19, lo que obligó a que se realizaran de ma...
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Los olvidados
La asombrosa y olvidada historia de cómo miles de estadounidenses huyeron de la Gran Depresión a Rusia en busca de empleo y una vida mejor para acabar atrapados en la pesadilla estalinista. En la década de 1930, la Gran Depresión golpea ferozmente a Estados Unidos y miles de jóvenes sin empleo, defraudados por el sueño americano, que ya no ofrece riqueza ni prosperidad, emigran a la Unión Soviética, el paraíso de los trabajadores, en busca de una oportunidad y de un sueño de signo contrario: el socialismo. Sin embargo, la promesa de un futuro mejor pronto se desmorona al comprobar las duras condiciones en las que han de vivir, y muchos de ellos quieren regresar. Es entonces cuando ...
