Historia, Misterios y Secretos

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Reúne ensayos sobre tres dimensiones del espacio, tanto del físico como del mental: sí mismo y el otro, nación y pensamiento mítico. Surgen en estas páginas las obsesiones intelectuales del autor: la dificultad y la necesidad del otro, la locura quijotesca y la racionalidad cervantina, el conflicto heideggeriano entre filosofía e historia, el espacio del silencio en la poesía, la contradicción que enfrenta nuestra condición cultural occidental y nuestras racíces mesoamericanas.

Vivimos en un planeta, pero no en un planeta cualquiera. Y es la toma de conciencia de esa condición especialísima de la Tierra la que nos invita a plantearnos, no por qué los otros planetas son diferentes al nuestro, sino por qué la Tierra es asombrosamente distinta. Con estilo claro y sencillo, a la vez que con rigor y precisión cuando son necesarios, el autor dialoga y comparte con el lector esa sensación de extrañeza que le ha producido la realidad física de la Tierra; con un lector que no tiene por qué ser un científico, geógrafo, astrónomo, físico, sino sólo una persona...