La metafísica del conocimiento de Karl Rahner. Análisis de "Espíritu en el mundo"

The Greeks did not think of madness as pathological, but instead as a divine possession, a type of knowledge and the possibility of happiness. The title essay in this book unveils the source of the most primal possession, the erotic one, caused by nymphs whose sudden and delirious rapture makes prisoners of men. For Calasso, possession is not exclusive to the ancient world, and, beyond the erotic, it is a perennial phenomenon that is experienced during life’s most basic and commonplace moments. Aby Warburg’s delirium for the nymph of Ghirlandaio, Humbert Humbert’s for Lolita in...

El origen de este libro es un importante acontecimiento en el cual el entonces cardenal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, hoy papa Francisco, tuvo un rol fundamental: la V Conferencia General del Episcopado Latinoamericano que se llevó a cabo en el santuario de Aparecida, Brasil, en mayo de 2007. No resulta aventurado afirmar que precisamente en Aparecida se oculta en parte el secreto de la elección de Bergoglio al solio pontificio. El filósofo uruguayo Alberto Methol Ferré ha contribuido al debate de aquellos días con la charla que constituye este libro, un mosaico temático de la América Latina...

Gran obra de un maestro del siglo XX. Un análisis brillante del mundo moderno junto con la propuesta de cómo vivir el cristianismo hoy.

Transformation of being begins exactly where one is. This is, for most of us, at home. We are acted upon by objects familiar to us, influenced in unfelt ways, and moved toward a destiny proper to a responsible being. Dwelling is complemented by journeying. To live in a home is to journey on the path that leads through the home to a world beyond. A householder becomes a traveler. A traveler is a seeker after new impressions, fresh impressions of a reality that beckons. Opening to the commonplace—what stands in front of us on the daily round—we are open to the call to respond to our role as...