Medianoche en la historia
Medianoche en la historia

Author: Reyes Mate

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9788481648447

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Walter Benjamin no quiso abandonar Europa cuando el fascismo le pisaba los talones. Tenía que mirar de frente a la barbarie para arrancarle el secreto de su poder. El resultado lo dejó escrito en unos folios titulados «Sobre el concepto de historia» que le costaron la vida. Decía que eran el «armazón teórico» para desentrañar el siglo xx. Frases suyas como «No hay un documento de cultura que no lo sea también de barbarie» o «Para los oprimidos el estado de excepción es permanente», están en todas la bocas, al igual que la imagen del ángel de la historia o la singular partida de ajedrez del muñeco y el enano. Benjamin es uno de los filósofos mayores de nuestro tiempo, aunque más citado que leído o comprendido. El propósito de Medianoche en la historia es adentrarnos en cada frase de sus famosas Tesis para reconstruir ese armazón teórico. No es tarea fácil habida cuenta del carácter fragmentario del escrito y de la proverbial sobriedad expresiva de su autor. «Que nada se pierda», la consigna que él daba al historiador formado en su escuela, es el principio que preside esta lectura de uno de los textos más lúcidos, radicales y conmovedores que hayan sido escritos. Aquellos eran tiempos oscuros que sólo invitaban a organizar el pesimismo. Benjamin avisó de que la lógica de su tiempo llevaba a la catástrofe. Su genialidad consistió en extraer de los desechos de la historia materiales con los que construir un futuro que no fuera prolongación del presente. Esa lección sigue vigente porque la lógica de la historia, pese a la catástrofe, sigue siendo la misma.

Medianoche en la historia
Medianoche en la historia

Author: Reyes Mate

Publisher: Trotta

Published: 2023-07-10

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 8413641675

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Walter Benjamin no quiso abandonar Europa cuando el fascismo le pisaba los talones. Tenía que mirar de frente a la barbarie para arrancarle el secreto de su poder. El resultado lo dejó escrito en unos folios titulados «Sobre el concepto de historia» que le costaron la vida. Decía que eran el «armazón teórico» para desentrañar el siglo xx. Frases suyas como «No hay un documento de cultura que no lo sea también de barbarie» o «Para los oprimidos el estado de excepción es permanente», están en todas la bocas, al igual que la imagen del ángel de la historia o la singular partida de ajedrez del muñeco y el enano. Benjamin es uno de los filósofos mayores de nuestro tiempo, aunque más citado que leído o comprendido. El propósito de Medianoche en la historia es adentrarnos en cada frase de sus famosas Tesis para reconstruir ese armazón teórico. No es tarea fácil habida cuenta del carácter fragmentario del escrito y de la proverbial sobriedad expresiva de su autor. «Que nada se pierda», la consigna que él daba al historiador formado en su escuela, es el principio que preside esta lectura de uno de los textos más lúcidos, radicales y conmovedores que hayan sido escritos. Aquellos eran tiempos oscuros que sólo invitaban a organizar el pesimismo. Benjamin avisó de que la lógica de su tiempo llevaba a la catástrofe. Su genialidad consistió en extraer de los desechos de la historia materiales con los que construir un futuro que no fuera prolongación del presente. Esa lección sigue vigente porque la lógica de la historia, pese a la catástrofe, sigue siendo la misma.

The Prehistory of Iberia
The Prehistory of Iberia

Author: María Cruz Berrocal

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0415885922

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This volume advances the archaeological study of social organisation in Prehistory, and more specifically the rise of social complexity in European Prehistory. Within the wider context of world Prehistory, in the last 30 years the subject of early social stratification and state formation has been a key subject on interest in Iberian Prehistory. This book illustrates the differing forms of resistances, the interplay between change and continuity, the multiple paths to and from social complexity, and the 'failures' of states to form in Prehistory. Focusing on Iberia, but with a permanent connection to the wider geographical framework, this book presents, for the first time, a chronologically comprehensive, up-to-date approach to the issue of state formation in prehistoric Europe.

Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express
Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express

Author: Margaret K. Wetterer

Publisher: Millbrook Press ™

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1512418617

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Kate stared at the rickety wooden bridge. There were boards loose on its narrow walkway. There was no railing to hold on to. She was afraid to cross this bridge even in daylight. But she had to cross it now. She had to get to the train station in time to stop the midnight express. When a heavy storm destroyed the bridge over Honey Creek, near Kate Shelley's home in Moingona, Iowa, fifteen-year-old Kate bravely rushed out into the storm, saving the lives of two men and preventing hundreds of other lives from being lost. This is the true story of a young girl's resourcefulness and courage in the face of great danger.

The Liberating Philosophy of Ignacio Ellacuría
The Liberating Philosophy of Ignacio Ellacuría

Author: Luis Arturo Martínez Vásquez

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2024-01-16

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1666925624

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The Liberating Philosophy of Ignacio Ellacuría: Historical Reality, Humanism, and Praxis is the first systematic work on the philosophy of Ignacio Ellacuría to be published in English so far. The Spaniard-Salvadorian philosopher—murdered in Salvador in 1989 by the military—maintains that philosophy is a permanent task grounded in metaphysics as first philosophy, as developed within a historical reality and a preferential option for the poor. As explored by this collection edited by Luis Arturo Martínez Vásquez, Randall Carrera Umaña, and Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda, Ellacuría's theory is a critical and practical proposal immersed in the colonial history of Central America, but its explanatory and normative power extends to oppressed people all around the world. The contributors to this volume, coming from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Salvador, and Costa Rica, analyze Ellacuría's philosophy of liberation in conjunction with radical realism and strength, describing it as "a philosophy created by people concerned with the problems and history of our land—such as our colonial past, systemic poverty and dependency—and… responding to these concerns can offer alternatives for a true liberation of all the dominated peoples of the world."

Handbook of Research on Citizenship and Heritage Education
Handbook of Research on Citizenship and Heritage Education

Author: Delgado-Algarra, Emilio José

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-01-31

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13: 1799819795

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Cultural competence in education promotes civic engagement among students. Providing students with educational opportunities to understand various cultural and political perspectives allows for higher cultural competence and a greater understanding of civic engagement for those students. The Handbook of Research on Citizenship and Heritage Education is a critical scholarly book that provides relevant and current research on citizenship and heritage education aimed at promoting active participation and the transformation of society. Readers will come to understand the role of heritage as a symbolic identity source that facilitates the understanding of the present and the past, highlighting the value of teaching. Additionally, it offers a source for the design of didactic proposals that promote active participation and the critical conservation of heritage. Featuring a range of topics such as educational policy, curriculum design, and political science, this book is ideal for educators, academicians, administrators, political scientists, policymakers, researchers, and students.

Memories and Representations of Terror
Memories and Representations of Terror

Author: Daniel Feierstein

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-10-06

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1000964612

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Memories and Representations of Terror: Working Through Genocide explores how memories and representations shape our understanding of historical events, particularly the ways in which societies create narratives about genocide and its aftermath, using Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976–1983) and its contested legacy as a case study. Feierstein examines how memories and representations of genocide are the terrain in which both the strategic objectives of genocide and the possibilities of challenging those objectives are contested. These memories and representations provide the foundation upon which critical judgments about the past are constructed and offer the potential for assuming responsibility and working through the consequences of genocide. This book proposes that terror continues to hijack the actions and identities of surviving societies via a process of the construction of memories and social representations of the lived experience in a final stage of genocide Feierstein terms "symbolic enactment". In doing so, Feierstein examines the contributions of various disciplines to comprehending memory processes and social representations. It covers a range of topics, from the nature of memory based on the neuroscientific discoveries of the last half-century to psychoanalytic theories on the functioning of the mind, including the role of psychic defense mechanisms, the unconscious mind, collective pacts of denial and different forms of desensitization. It also explores historiographical debates between forms of history and forms of memory, as well as sociological contributions to the analysis of social frames of memory, cultural memory, generational transmission and related issues. The first volume of a three-volume work that aims to identify and evaluate the various consequences of genocidal social practices and the possibility of healing the scars left on individuals’ subjectivities and the social fabric by genocide. This book is essential reading for students and academics in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in genocide, collective memory and identity.

Awake, Emerging, and Connected
Awake, Emerging, and Connected

Author: Victoria Turner

Publisher: SCM Press

Published: 2024-07-31

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0334065445

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Millennials and Gen Zers have been characterized as individualistic capitalist consumers, as politically unengaged and spiritually selfish, or only interested in identity politics. This edited collection, by bringing together younger generations of theologians, activists, campaigners, artists, and those working in politics, academia, the church, economics, or community work, offers a new narrative of justice- one that is globally aware and actively intersectional. Bringing together powerful young voices with a wealth of contextually grounded experiences of faith and justice, spreading over Mexico, India, Nagaland, Germany, Wales, Ecuador, South Africa, Palestine, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Scotland, England and the Pacific, the chapters in this book imagine daring new possibilities. Together the chapters reveal a generation who face a burning, politically and religiously right-leaning, egotistical world, and who know clearly that the legacies of Empire, which continue white hegemony, patriarchy, heterosexuality, normalized cisgender identities, the class war, colonial debts, Western epistemology, and ecological extraction, must be overcome and replaced by a transnational solidarity of resistance and reimagination.

Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature
Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature

Author: Daniel Noemi Voionmaa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-08-25

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1009191225

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Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature examines secret police reports on Gabriel García Márquez, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Elena Poniatowska, José Revueltas, Otto René Castillo, Carlos Cerda, and other writers, from archives in Mexico, Chile, Guatemala, Uruguay, the German Democratic Republic, and the USA. Combining literary and cultural analysis, history, philosophy, and history of art, it establishes a critical dialogue between the spies' surveillance and the writers' novels, short stories, and poems, and presents a new take on Latin American modernity, tracing the trajectory of a modern gaze from the Italian Renaissance to the Cold War. It traces the origins of today's surveillance society with sense of urgency and consequence that should appeal to academic and non-academic readers alike throughout the Americas, Europe and beyond.

The Midnight Hour
The Midnight Hour

Author: Benjamin Read

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1338569112

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For fans of portal fantasies like Jessica Townsend's Nevermoor, Colin Meloy's Wildwood, and The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, and unlike so many other fantasies that introduce readers to a world of enchantment and wonder, The Midnight Hour is one filled with beasts and monsters for readers looking to shine their flashlights under the covers. When strange late-night letters start arriving at home, Emily's parents set off to investigate. But when her parents disappear completely and Emily is left home alone to face the weird strangers that begin to appear at her door, she takes all of the clues at her disposal and makes for the place where the letters came from -- the mysterious Night Post. What she'll discover is the secret world of the Midnight Hour -- a Victorian London frozen in time, full of magic and monsters. Kept safe by an age-old agreement, the Night Folk have been exiled to a parallel world that can only be accessed by a selected few, including the mail carriers of the infamous Night Post that operate between the two worlds. Emily's parents are key players in keeping the Night Folk safe, but when the division of the two worlds is threatened, Emily must search for her parents while navigating this dark and unknown version of London. Armed only with a packed lunch, her very sleepy pocket hedgehog, and her infamously big argumentative mouth, she must escape bloodthirsty creatures of the night, figure out her own family secrets, and maybe just save the world. This is a frightening and enchanting story, a world built out of creatures from our worst fears who become relatable, fully formed characters unlike any we've seen as these strangers of parallel worlds band together to save the day.