Los Arabes

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.

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La barbarie ordinaria analiza la obra de un autor, Zoran Music, que ha sido objeto en repetidas ocasiones del interés de Jean Clair. Music ocupa un lugar central en la cultura europea que surge de los campos de concentración del nacionalsocialismo. Sus dibujos y pinturas siempre están determinados por su estancia en Dachau, y la reflexión plástica sobre su estancia es un documento clásico, equiparable a los textos de Primo Levi, Robert Antelme y Giorgio Agamben.

This volume includes31 constitutions, constitutional drafts and amendments illustrating the checkered political history of Spain in the first half of the 19th century. It begins with the "Estatuto de Bayona" (Bayonne Statute) imposed by the French in 1808 and continues with the"Constitucion politica de la Monarquia Espanola" (Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy), the first independent constitution of Spain, which was drawn up in Cadiz in 1812. Subsequently, it also includes the "Constitucion de la Monarquia Espanola" (Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy) of 1845.Nine...