Encuentros y diálogos con Martin Heidegger

El libro pasa revista a los conceptos fundamentales que han inspirado el estudio de las realidades iberoamericanas contemporáneas, y que han acompañado a esas sociedades en su lento proceso desde las guerras coloniales a las actuales batallas poscoloniales. De este modo, muestra el complejo diálogo entre las tradiciones filosóficas europeas y las americanas y las específicas refracciones e intensidades que experimentan en el continente austral.

La filosofia de la tecnologia es un territorio academico donde se examinan las diferentes dimensiones de las tecnologias y sus relaciones con los aspectos politicos, sociales, economicos, esteticos y eticos del mundo contemporaneo. Vivimos y experimentamos nuestras vidas en entornos artificiales que resultan del hacer colectivo humano. Todas nuestras experiencias ocurren dentro de esos entornos; los mundos artificiales las estructuran. Comprender estos mundos es al mismo tiempo un camino de asimiento de nosotros mismos como agentes constructores de esos mundos. Este libro presenta una...

Tao Te Ching is to Taoism what the Bible is to Catholicism, or the Quran to Islam. It is not known for certain when it was written, although many different versions exist. There are even those who doubt that its author was Lao Tsé, venerated today in much of the East. Originally written as instruction for leaders, it is divided into short chapters where the characteristics of Tao are described. An example of balance, harmony, and communion with the natural course of events, "Tao" is a path of self-knowledge that draws the human being closer to wisdom and spiritual completeness. Readers of...

In some circles, a nod towards totalitarianism is enough to dismiss any critique of the status quo. Such is the insidiousness of the neo-liberal ideology, argues Slavoj Žižek. Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? turns a specious rhetorical strategy on its head to identify a network of family resemblances between totalitarianism and modern liberal democracy. Žižek argues that totalitarianism is invariably defined in terms of four things: the Holocaust as the ultimate, diabolical evil; the Stalinist gulag as the alleged truth of the socialist revolutionary project; ethnic and religious...