Ángel Pascual Devesa. Reflexiones y recuerdos

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Ernest Gellner hace en esta obra un replanteamiento total de la historia de la civilización occidental sin desdeñar los aspectos religiosos o bélicos; incluso las causas de la violencia humana se infieren de la exposición de las necesidades del hombre desde sus más tempranos intentos por asociarse, organizarse y jerarquizarse. Desde los más sencillos agrupamientos humanos, como los clanes o tribus, el autor revisa el papel cambiante de la simbología conceptual.

Este libro intenta dar algunas ideas sobre lo que han sido y son la literatura y las literaturas en la vida del hombre, y ello desde Homero y aun antes, desde que el hombre es hombre, hasta el siglo XVII d. C. Este es el ambicioso intento de este libro. Ninguno conocemos todas las Literaturas unidas al que llamamos Río de la Literatura: las que van desde el Sumerio al Próximo Oriente, luego al Griego, al Latín y a las Literaturas descendientes de éste en Europa, hasta la fecha indicada. En suma, se trata de estudiar las relaciones dentro de las diversas fases dela Literatura, fundadas...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...