Cultural Horizons Vols I & Ii

El autor ofrece con una prosa ágil un verdadero tratado sobre la usura en la Edad Media cristiana, demostrando desde una nueva perspectiva la vinculación entre los campos de la economía y la religión, verdaderos pilares sobre los que descansaban las estructuras de la época. El usurero, tan odiado como imprescindible, está asociado con uno de los siete pecados capitales: la codicia. Aun durmiendo, su dinero le hace más rico, manifestándose así como un ladrón de tiempo. El usurero está irremediablemente condenado al infierno. Sin embargo, en vísperas del auge de los grandes...

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Lynn Hunt se sirve del concepto freudiano de “novela familiar” (esa fantasía que tiene el neurótico de deshacerse de sus padres para reemplazarlos por otros que pertenecen a una esfera social más elevada), pero solo para ir más allá de la formulación originaria y designar al conjunto de imágenes, inconscientes y colectivas, referidas al orden familiar subyacentes a una política revolucionaria que tuvo en el acto sacrificial del asesinato del padre la condición de posibilidad de la venida a la presencia y el encumbramiento a la dirección política de la Revolución de “la banda ...

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