Vida y muerte de un convento

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En momentos en que nuestros gobernantes pretenden convencernos de que nos enfrentamos a un “choque de civilizaciones” del que depende nuestro futuro, conviene poner en claro qué es en realidad la civilización que se nos llama a defender. Este libro nos lleva, para ello, a una fascinante revisión crítica de la historia, que nos demuestra que la idea de un modelo occidental de civilización, cuya extensión al mundo entero debería conducir a una felicidad universal, ha sido una de las principales causas de muchas de las catástrofes del pasado y del presente. “La incómoda verdad a...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

Nuestros ancestros, los mesopotámicos, inventaron la escritura y gracias a ella pudieron mirar el mundo que los rodeaba de una manera diferente, y al tiempo construyeron una nueva forma de pensar, de analizar, de ordenar como jamás le hubiera permitido la tradición oral. En la búsqueda de la razón última de ser de este universo y del último sentido de nuestra existencia humana, edificaron toda una suntuosa y sabia mitología que anunciaba ya entonces aquella con la que Israel construirá su " teología " , que sigue siendo la nuestra. Jean Bottéro pretende en este libro acercarse al...