Música, dictadura, resistencia

A polemic work due to its hefty critic to public figures and to those who see the electoral reformations -which this book demystifies-, as a historical achievement. The transition to democracy requires not only the dismantlement of the old regime, but also the design of the new normative and institutional arrangement that preserves the plural and multiple spirit of the nation. The task is immense, but our generation cannot avoid it: citizens must not stay apart. The mixture of fill and hope has to be translated into critic, proposal, and active participation. The essays that I have gathered...

This collection is the final volume of a four book survey of the state of phenomenology fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl. Its publication represents a landmark in the comprehensive treatment of contemporary phenomenology in all its vastness and richness. The diversity of the issues raised here is dazzling, but the main themes of Husserl's thought are all either explicitly treated, or else they underlie the ingenious approaches found here. Time, historicity, intentionality, eidos, meaning, possibility/reality, and teleology are the main concerns of this collection devoted to...

Throughout the decades following the death of Mariano Jose de Larra, scholars have been intrigued by the impact that both the man and his writings have had on generation after generation of Spanish and Latin American writers. This study looks at the genesis of Larra's genius by carefully tabulating and identifying his sources in literature and history. This important resource book will help Larra scholars understand more completely the intricate and complex system of images, allusions and references "Figaro" used to compose his more than 250 newspaper articles. More importantly, the work...

Esta segunda edición realiza un vibrante recorrido por la historiografía del siglo XX, combinando admirablemente el desarrollo de la teoría con la exposición de los autores y las obras concretas. Repasa las corrientes que han dominado la disciplina histórica durante el siglo pasado: los positivismos de entresiglos, los historicismos de entreguerras, la eclosión y desarrollo de la escuela de los Annales, los marxismos y los estructuralismos de la larga posguerra asociados a una historia de carácter socioeconómico, la eclosión del postmodernismo y de los giros lingüísticos y...