Enfermedad y sociedad en los primeros tiempos modernos

Juan Cano Ballesta estudia en lúcidos y rigurosos ensayos -con gran despliegue teórico y documental, de figuras y textos- el discurso político de años muy turbulentos de nuestra historia. La utopía es un eficaz recurso retórico que “recorre todo el espectro intelectual de la modernidad” (Calinescu) para suscitar simpatías por una causa. Si las ideologías de izquierda cantaban la “aurora roja” como el soñado paraíso que iba a traer la revolución, la Falange invocaba insistentemente el feliz “amanecer” y el “imperio” en el ensayo, la poesía, el periodismo y en los...

Pocas figuras del Lejano Oriente tan atractivas para el imaginario occidental (y descontando, por supuesto, el propio de Japón) como la del samurái, temible guerrero imbuido de una mística especial y provisto de una exótica indumentaria y un armamento deslumbrante. En "Historia de los samuráis", Jonathan López-Vera desentraña el fondo de este estereotipo y expone su trayectoria histórica: un recorrido tan ameno como riguroso que abarca más de mil años en los que a lo largo de siete siglos constituyeron la elite social y política del país, contribuyendo a forjar su propio mito. En...

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