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The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most arresting, insightful and scandalous thinkers in recent memory' and 'the Giant of Ljubljana'. Collects work by one of the most arresting and scandalous thinkers of our time. Aids the reader to understand the often complex thinking of both Lacan and Zizek .

A study of letter-writing in Renaissance Spain. The subject of this book is the art of letter-writing in the Renaissance period, which, particularly in the case of Spain, has been unjustly neglected. The first part examines two major sixteenth-century treatises on letter-writing, Erasmus's Opus de conscribendis epistolis (1522) and Juan Luis Vives's De conscribendis epistolis(1536), concluding that the two were composed independently, rather than one being derived from the other. The author goes on to look at two important collections of letters, Fray Antonio de Guevara's Epístolas...

Una esclarecedora reflexión acerca de la obra de Miguel de Unamuno y de los aspectos filosóficos que ocuparon su pensamiento, de una de las más grandes pensadoras españolas de nuestro tiempo. Este libro recoge un largo y esclarecedor ensayo inédito de la escritora María Zambrano sobre la figura y la obra de don Miguel de Unamuno, escrito hacia 1940 en el exilio cubano de la autora y que, por diversas circunstancias, había permanecido extraviado hasta fechas muy recientes. Recoge también, bajo la atenta y cuidadosa edición de Mercedes Gómez Blesa, otros artículos de Zambrano acerca...

The classic and still powerful novel of a tragic people caught in the tail wind of a civilization both alien and hostile to them, from the first winner of the Mexican National Award in Literature.From their stick-and-mud village far up the mountains, the Indians can look across the wide Mexico that was once theirs and look down upon the houses and fields where they now do enforced labor for the mestizos and whites. Once proud and powerful, the tribe has added their conquerors to the natural perils of forest and jungle, famine and plague, as evils against which they and their witchcraft are...