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Writing Teresa
Writing Teresa: The Saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesús “boom” of roughly 1880–1930, and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St. Teresa. This historical period’s interest in the Saint from Ávila relates to popularization and nationalization of aspects of Catholicism, technological advances, a modernist fascination with saintly heroes, the search for new Spanish identities, and the evolving role of women writers and intellectuals. Teresa was mysticism in its historical context, energy in a time of doubt, the possibility of reconciling science and spirituality, a new vision for writing, and a maternal figure linked to the religion of the past for those who had lost the faith of their childhood.
Philosophical Challenges of Plurality in a Global World
This book is a collection of essays by a select array of international scholars, on a range of issues concerning plurality, pluralism, and other closely related concepts, which constitute the framework and guiding thread for the whole volume. The themes and subjects dealt with here address issues of the greatest concern, particularly in the delicate context of present-day Europe and of modern societies with a global scale. The volume’s basis is the belief that pluralism, globality, technology, mass media, and computer networks are distinctive traits of contemporary society in all its complexity – and that, therefore, such notions provide essential conceptual tools for explaining and unde...
The Worlds of Positivism
This book is the first to trace the origins and significance of positivism on a global scale. Taking their cues from Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill, positivists pioneered a universal, experience-based culture of scientific inquiry for studying nature and society—a new science that would enlighten all of humankind. Positivists envisaged one world united by science, but their efforts spawned many. Uncovering these worlds of positivism, the volume ranges from India, the Ottoman Empire, and the Iberian Peninsula to Central Europe, Russia, and Brazil, examining positivism’s impact as one of the most far-reaching intellectual movements of the modern world. Positivists reinvented science, claiming it to be distinct from and superior to the humanities. They predicated political governance on their refashioned science of society, and as political activists, they sought and often failed to reconcile their universalism with the values of multiculturalism. Providing a genealogy of scientific governance that is sorely needed in an age of post-truth politics, this volume breaks new ground in the fields of intellectual and global history, the history of science, and philosophy.
Anarchist Education and the Modern School
On October 13, 1909, Francisco Ferrer, the notorious Catalan anarchist educator and founder of the Modern School, was executed by firing squad. The Spanish government accused him of masterminding the Tragic Week rebellion, while the transnational movement that emerged in his defense argued that he was simply the founder of the groundbreaking Modern School of Barcelona. Was Ferrer a ferocious revolutionary, an ardently nonviolent pedagogue, or something else entirely? Anarchist Education and the Modern School is the first historical reader to gather together Ferrer’s writings on rationalist education, revolutionary violence, and the general strike (most translated into English for the first...
El legado jurídico y social de Giner
Bajo la influencia del legado de Don Francisco Giner de los Ríos, y transcurridos cien años después de su muerte, encontramos su inspiración en casi toda la literatura jurídica y política en lengua castellana, tal y como se muestra expresamente en el aprecio que por su pensamiento procesaron algunos de los más destacados renovadores de la educación y el derecho a finales del siglo XIX y a comienzos del XX; un influjo general sin el cual no se comprendería el progreso de la ciencia educativa y del Derecho en España, ni acaso se explicarían no pocas esenciales manifestaciones de nuestra política positiva. Esta obra aborda las principales líneas maestras de su doctrina jurídico y social, imprescindibles para comprender la profunda y subyugante influencia que ejerció la robusta huella de la obra gineriana, y desvela qué potencial práctico del pensamiento moral y jurídico de Giner, aún no agotado históricamente, puede encontrar su realización en el derecho y educación actuales.
Krausismo en México
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Un duelo de labores y esperanzas. Don Francisco Giner en su centenario (1839-1915)
«¿Murió?... Sólo sabemos ; que se nos fue por una senda clara, ; diciéndonos: Hacedme ; un duelo de labores y esperanzas. ; Sed buenos y no más, sed lo que he sido ; entre vosotros: alma». Antonio Machado evocaba con estos versos el papel de guía espiritual de Francisco Giner de los Ríos. El «Sócrates español» ejerció una larga influencia en distintos intelectuales del último cuarto del siglo XIX y del siglo XX a través de su filosofía de la conducta, que unía pensamiento y acción. Con la intención de perfilar la personalidad del maestro institucionista y determinar su proyección, los trabajos recogidos en el presente volumen exploran, desde la mirada del otro, algunas de las caras de la figura poliédrica que es Giner de los Ríos. A través de Galdós, Clarín, Menéndez Pelayo, Unamuno, Azorín, Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Américo Castro y Valente, así como de maestras e intelectuales catalanes, el lector podrá rastrear la huella indeleble que dejó Giner (más aún el hombre que su obra), y el profundo calado de sus presupuestos como educador, amante del paisaje, «hacedor de hombres» e incluso crítico de arte y literatura.
