Los que van a morir te saludan

En este libro póstumo, cuya publicación fue prevista por Nicole Loraux, la gran historiadora se interroga sobre las representaciones que la ciudad griega pretende dar de sí misma. En concreto, analiza los discursos relacionados con la incómoda cuestión de la guerra civil, la stásis. Subrayando la importancia del uso correcto del psicoanálisis en historia, Nicole Loraux formula el deseo de que los historiadores, «maduros por la experiencia del tiempo presente, confrontados al evidente fracaso de aplicar casillas explicativas unidimensionales a las guerras civiles que estallan en todas...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

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This volume contains several oral accounts that were preserved from the Yoruba tradition that allows us to explore our roots. Their exchanges are steeped in cultural rituals, references, and principles that distinguishes them. In this book, the author looks at the meyi, one part of the te two categories comprised of the Ifa.