Breve historia contemporánea del Brasil

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Nos dice Boorstin que la cultura occidental ha conocido tres grandes épocas de investigación. En la primera el ser humano buscó la respuesta a sus interrogantes más vitales en un dios que le hablaba desde arriba (Moisés, Isaías, o el autor del libro de Job), o en el pensamiento filosófico que nacía de su reflexión interior (Sócrates, Platón, Aristóteles). Vino luego una segunda época de búsqueda basada en la experiencia (Bacon, Descartes) y en el liberalismo (Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson). Finalmente, la tercera, asentada en los pilares de las ciencias sociales, alumbró hombres...

Ángel Pascual Devesa (Finestrat, 1888 - Alicante, 1950) fue médico, pediatra, político, periodista, foguerer, escritor en castellano y valenciano… La primera parte del libro estudia sus facetas familiares, culturales, médicas y políticas, a partir de una amplia documentación que la familia ha legado al Archivo de la Democracia de la Universidad de Alicante. La segunda parte del volumen ofrece una versión resumida de una serie de cuadernillos que Ángel Pascual Devesa escribió a partir de 1936 donde relata, con una prosa característica, sus vivencias, recuerdos y reflexiones....

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