El animal interior

Desde la más remota antigüedad, los chinos han escrito textos eróticos que no tienen nada que envidiar al famoso Kamasutra hindú, que data en torno al siglo VI, ni al Breviario árabe del amor, escrito en el siglo XVI. Obras elaboradas mucho después que el ars erotica chino. Nacido en torno a la fertilidad y la longevidad vital, y asociado a la unión con el cosmos a través del Yin y el Yang, en China se desarrolló toda una serie de “artes de la alcoba” que se transmitieron durante siglos a través de textos eróticos e ilustraciones que tenían un carácter pedagógico. El ascenso ...

A punto de que Colombia fuera un Estado fallido, ¿cómo llegaron a ser los colombianos normativamente pluriculturales? Vistas en un marco global, ¿qué características sellaron sus experiencias básicas a lo largo de dos siglos de existencia independentista? La solución de esos interrogantes sirve de excusa al autor de este libro para el escrutinio detallado de los íconos culturales unidos al mito originario de los colombianos, cuya ley de circulación circular coartó el surgimiento de lo nuevo, y del mito cultural de la Atenas suramericana, con que se intentó compensar el fracaso en...

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