Toward a Contemporary City

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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...

Medievalista de prestigio internacional, Guy Bois ejerce, sin embargo, en este libro de historiador a secas y comprometido con su tiempo. En él nos ofrece un análisis lúcido, y a la vez sencillo, de la mundialización, vasta empresa de dominación y explotación del mundo, que avanza sobre varios frentes: económico, político, ideológico. Desde hace más de veinte años, ahonda las desigualdades sociales en todas partes; vacía las democracias de su sustancia; se impone por la fuera de la desinformación y las manipulaciones de la opinión; y no duda en recurrir a la guerra con una...

Del populismo podría decirse lo mismo que San Agustín escribió acerca del tiempo: "Si me preguntan qué es, no lo sé; si no me lo preguntan, lo sé". En efecto, el concepto populismo, aunque utilizado con frecuencia, sigue siendo evasivo e impreciso. A fin de comprenderlo, Loris Zanatta lo aborda desde una perspectiva histórica, y analiza las difíciles relaciones entre libertad política y orden social, comunidad e individuo, tiranía y democracia, esfera secular y esfera espiritual en la historia occidental, en un "largo viaje a las raíces políticas y espirituales de nuestro mundo"....