El emperador y los ríos. Religión, ingeniería y política en el Imperio Romano

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A fines del siglo XIX, el inglés Francis Galton acuñó el término eugenesia (del griego “buen nacer”) para designar el campo de conocimiento interesado en el estudio de las leyes de la herencia humana y de los métodos para mejorar la descendencia. Galton concibió la eugenesia como el camino para garantizar la selección artificial de rasgos psicofísicos deseables en los seres humanos con el fin de estimular la reproducción de personas sanas física y mentalmente, y limitar la de aquéllas consideradas de calidad “inferior”. Este libro analiza los fundamentos “científicos”...

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Roger Caillois examina en este libro las múltiples formas de manifestación y de creación de la imaginación mítica; en estas páginas están al mismo tiempo las habilidades del poeta y las destrezas del investigador riguroso.