Poder, contrapoder y sus representaciones

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“Los guerrilleros suicidas que atacaron Washington y Nueva York el 11 de septiembre de 2001 hicieron algo más que matar a miles de civiles y demoler el World Trade Center. Destruyeron el mito dominante de Occidente.” Así comienza John Gray este breve e intenso libro que trata sobre la creencia que ha dominado nuestras mentes durante un siglo y medio: la idea de que ser un ciudadano moderno significa también ser más amistoso y razonable. Pero nada podría estar más lejos de la verdad, argumenta Gray. Al Qaeda, por ejemplo, es un producto de la modernidad y de la globalización, y no...

La coronación de Carlos V como emperador trastoca la vida de su secretario en Italia para siempre, al caer en un amor dulce y tierno. La vida del consejero del César, el señor de los Cobos quedará al descubierto para lector.

As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...