El antiguo Oriente

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

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El objetivo principal es exponer, desde una visión transhistórica, la información conocida y plantear nuevas hipótesis sobre los cementerios medievales de Sevilla, desde el siglo VIII hasta el XV, no solo desde el punto de vista ritual o social sino también urbanístico, poniendo especial interés en la relación de estos espacios con el medio urbano.

Aborda los problemas medioambientales y existenciales de nuestra globalización posmoderna bajo el prisma de la antigua escuela filosófica cínica. A partir de la definición del cinismo por Sloterdijk como "la filosofía para los tiempos de crisis", el autor utiliza la figura y las armas del cinismo antiguo (humor, sátira y burla) para desenmascarar la hipócrita estructura de la sociedad contemporánea que nutre su opulencia de la explotación de la naturaleza y del individuo.