Europa: reflexiones sobre una utopía

Los textos que integran este volumen ofrecen una perspectiva amplia, conmovedora y compleja, de sentimientos humanos persistentes en todas las epocas. Puesto que con frecuencia van unidos y sin duda el aprecio de lo placentero contrasta con el sufrimiento de lo doloroso, presentamos una mirada en la que simultaneamente se valoran la dicha y la tristeza, se aprecia la capacidad de sacrificio, pero tambien se exalta el esfuerzo personal por alcanzar la felicidad. Asi, el tema central es la ambivalencia de dos sentimientos, el gozo y el dolor, aparentemente opuestos pero que en realidad son solo ...

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La versión definitiva de la historia global contemporánea. Un viajero que recorriera el mundo en 1411 hubiera quedado deslumbrado por las imponentes civilizaciones orientales. La Ciudad Prohibida estaba en plena construcción en la China de los Ming; en Oriente Próximo, los otomanos acechaban Constantinopla. Por el contrario, los belicosos países de Europa occidental, Inglaterra, Escocia, Castilla, Aragón, Francia y Portugal, eran pobres y atrasados, debilitados por las epidemias, las pésimas condiciones sanitarias y las guerras incesantes. En cuanto a Norteamérica, en el siglo XV era...

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...