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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Cuando Mary W. Shelley escribió Frankenstein (1818), una de las obras clave del Romanticismo europeo, no podía ni tna solo imaginar que su delirio novelesco llegaría a ser algún día posible.l su novela pretendía ser, ante todo, una relectura de los viejos mitos de creación a la luz de la estética romántica. Pero acaso, sin darse cuenta, esa relectura remitía fundamentalmente a la técnica y el progreso, nuevos dioses de Occidente. No era el logos místico del Evangelio de San Juan ni el saber hermético de rabino Löv lo que animaba la obra del Dr Victor Frankentein, sino la ciencia.

Un clásico indispensable para entender la historia de Europa y la formación de las identidades nacionales. «Un libro magistral sobre un tema esencial: la formación de los sentimientos y las preocupaciones nacionales en la historia». Juan Pablo Fusi ¿Cómo se construye una nación? Este revolucionario estudio de Eugen Weber, publicado originalmente en 1976 pero nunca traducido al español hasta ahora, ofrece una iluminadora respuesta a esa pregunta a través del caso de Francia, considerado el ejemplo más acabado de identidad nacional perdurable a lo largo del tiempo. Weber demuestra...