La muerte del egoísmo

Todos ellos se ponen detrás de una línea: es una interrupción del camino, una brecha hecha intencionalmente con piedras, una señal puesta ahí debido a quién sabe qué, pero, de todos modos, dibuja un límite. Todos permanecen detrás de el, lado a lado, listos para cruzar tan pronto como el compañero comience a correr. Es un juego cada vez más raramente visto entre niños, al aire libre. Este indica un espacio dentro del cual debes permanecer, de cerca, de manera parecida, respetuosamente y entonces, tan pronto como ellos pasan más allá, todo se vuelve nuevo y libre. Bueno, en mi...

A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Chávez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual literary work. These meditative and lyrical pieces combine poignant personal confession, detailed daily observation, and a memorializing drive that shifts across time and among geocultural spaces. The author’s inventive and flamboyant use of Spanglish, a hybrid English-Spanish idiom, and her adaptation of the confessional "crónica" make this memoir compelling and powerful. Killer Crónicas...

Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today’s intellectual imagination, having influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this first biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human experience. As Engel shows, in his search for the truth of Jewish mysticism Scholem molded the ...

THOMAS MERTON. The man and his interior life - The work of Thomas Merton gives us the keys to solve our own contradictions that were also his: a life of faith and doubts, solitude and the necessity to live for others, the presence of God and his absence, poverty and the necessity of economic stability