Historia y expansión del cristianismo desde sus orígenes hasta el siglo V

En esta excelente muestra de su erudición, Edgar Morin ensaya una antropología de la barbarie que recorre toda la historia occidental. En este libro el autor hace referencia a los dos grandes totalitarismos que dominaron el siglo XX –el hitlerismo y el estalinismo-, pero también a los desastres de la era poscolonial, emergentes del imperialismo europeo. Dedica un espacio importante a los grupos y personas que se opusieron a las explosiones de barbarie –y que califica de “antídotos culturales”- y propone categorías filosóficas que ayudan a identificar la irrupción constante del...

Siete crónicas históricas en las que se cuela la ficción para narrar el lado B del proceso independentista chileno. Edición corregida. El que aparece en este volumen es un Chile oculto donde no hay simplemente héroes o villanos, patriotas o realistas, corajudos o pusilánimes, sino personas sometidas a circunstancias extraordinarias que reaccionaron con gran valentía y desprendimiento, pero que también perpetraron acciones rastreras y criminales, o fueron prisioneras de la ambición y del ego. Exponiendo esos matices, poniendo las cosas en perspectiva, ese periodo mítico de la...

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