La historia transnacional

Conquistar el mundo quizá sea más fácil que conquistar la posteridad. Napoleón, que acarició lo primero, ha conseguido sobradamente lo segundo. Seductor como un encantador de serpientes, cruel tirano y, a la vez, heraldo del mensaje liberador de la Revolución Francesa, genio militar y visionario, su figura ha fascinado a partidarios y detractores por igual. Empezando por sus contemporáneos, como Balzac, quien realizó esta concisa y meticulosa antología de sus máximas y pensamientos sin eludir las aristas más afiladas del pequeño cabo que llegó a emperador. Balzac y Napoleón: dos ...

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Siguiendo el hilo conductor del proceso de secularización, y desde una visión cristiana del hombre y de la historia, el autor expone las claves de la época moderna (siglos XVI-XVIII), para analizar a continuación las principales ideologías contemporáneas -liberalismo, nacionalismo, marxismo, cientificismo- y subrayar su papel de religiones sustitutivas. La tercera parte trata la crisis de la cultura de la Modernidad en el siglo XX, examinando con detalle el nihilismo, la sociedad permisiva y los movimientos culturales de mayor actualidad: feminismo, ecologismo, nuevos movimientos...