Durango

These papers are centered on the Crown of Aragon in the later Middle Ages, its achievements (the more remarkable given the very evident problems with which it was beset), and especially on its role in the Mediterranean. Hence the emphasis on Majorca, its leading intellectual figure, Ramon Lull (1232-1316), and his influence, and related to these the article on Thomas Aquinas. Other studies deal with the relations of Christians and Jews in Majorca, down to the Expulsion from Spain. In these papers Professor Hillgarth seeks to investigate the transmission of learning and how what is transmitted ...

Es éste un libro singular, un atípico manual. Un manual cuyo objeto se encuentra a medio camino de la historia del pensamiento político, la filosofía y la historia cultural: una historia de las ideologías. Unas ideologías que toman, en este manual, la forma de un complejo sistema cultural que engloba todas aquellas formas, materiales o no, que dotan de significados a nuestra realidad. Así, los autores analizan las distintas concepciones que, a la manera de la weltanschauung de Dilthey, han marcado el devenir de la humanidad y sus circunstancias históricas. Estamos, pues, ante una...

Does a “perfect assassination” exist? Perfect crimes are the ones we never hear about. Crimes involving a double affront to their victims where we couldn’t have known leaves their closest relatives, helpless and disheartened at the destruction. “Thou shall not kill,” is present in all civilizations as a fundamental premise, and perhaps the only one absolutely necessary for coexistence between humans. The majority of these crimes are considered perfect solely because of the incompetence of the investigators. With detention techniques, no crime, regardless of how well-planned, always...

Este libro, ya considerado un clásico en su género, analiza los problemas referidos a la vida intelectual en el Río de la Plata durante el período colonial.