China Contemporanea

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Cuando Mary W. Shelley escribió Frankenstein (1818), una de las obras clave del Romanticismo europeo, no podía ni tna solo imaginar que su delirio novelesco llegaría a ser algún día posible.l su novela pretendía ser, ante todo, una relectura de los viejos mitos de creación a la luz de la estética romántica. Pero acaso, sin darse cuenta, esa relectura remitía fundamentalmente a la técnica y el progreso, nuevos dioses de Occidente. No era el logos místico del Evangelio de San Juan ni el saber hermético de rabino Löv lo que animaba la obra del Dr Victor Frankentein, sino la ciencia.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Estados Unidos se ha definido siempre como un caso excepcional, un primer experimento político que muchas naciones han imitado antes o después. Su vasta superficie y el aumento constante y acelerado de su población condicionaron desde sus inicios los modos de vida de sus habitantes y configuraron su identidad como coloso demográfico y país inmigrante. El credo de la libertad, la fórmula que los Padres Fundadores encontraron para dotar de unidad y coherencia al país fue, a la larga, exitosa: Estados Unidos es la democracia más longeva del planeta y su escueta Constitución la más...