Historias secretas de Córdoba

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

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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...

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