Download or read book El despertar del alma written by David Hernández de la Fuente and published by Editorial Ariel. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 1157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pocos motivos hay tan poderosos en la historia del pensamiento, las artes y las letras como el de la princesa Ariadna, abandonada mientras duerme en la isla de Naxos y despertada por un dios, Dioniso, que la convertirá en su esposa y le otorgará una apoteosis inolvidable. En la Grecia antigua, Dioniso ocupaba un lugar ambivalente entre las divinidades griegas más importantes para la comunidad. Encarnaba la reconciliación y la cohesión colectiva pero también el éxtasis que hacía perder al ser humano la conciencia individual, acercándolo al gran misterio del mundo. Entre lo visible y lo invisible, los márgenes y el centro, lo masculino y lo femenino, lo humano y lo divino, el papel crucial de Dioniso se confirma asimismo en su recepción moderna, sobre todo desde Nietzsche. Pero el poliédrico dios se resiste a menudo a las muchas racionalizaciones, de ayer y hoy, que se han intentado hacer de él. Este libro se propone indagar en Dioniso, a través de Ariadna, especialmente en lo que tiene de relevante para el hombre actual, y en su influencia en la literatura, el arte y el pensamiento. Aun hoy sus mitos evocan el intento siempre inasible de comprender el misterio tras la experiencia humana, como encarna el episodio del despertar de Ariadna. «Con claro estilo y espléndida erudición David Hernández de la Fuente nos ofrece un libro imprescindible para comprender la figura de Dioniso, el más extraño de los dioses griegos y a la vez el más cercano», Carlos García Gual. «Este nuevo libro viene a llenar un vacío en la bibliografía existente sobre Dioniso al combinar un apasionante estudio sobre la tradición antigua con una excelente visión panorámica de la recepción del mito en la literatura y el pensamiento de la posteridad», Luis Alberto de Cuenca. «Un libro fascinante y accesible que traza las encarnaciones de este dios multifacético, prestando especial atención a la mujer a quien él salvó y elevó a las estrellas, Ariadna», David Konstan, New York University. «David Hernández de la Fuente es el mayor conocedor de los mitos dionisíacos en el mundo hispánico: su dominio de los textos, su atención constante al fenómeno histórico-religioso (en las dos vertientes, pagana y cristiana), y la agilidad de su escritura lo recomiendan para cualquiera que desee ser iniciado en el complejo y multiforme universo dionisiaco», Enrico Livrea, Università di Firenze.
Download or read book The Death of Empedocles written by Friedrich Holderlin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-07-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive scholarly edition and new translation of all three versions of Hölderlin’s poem, The Death of Empedocles, and his related theoretical essays.
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Download or read book Platonic Legislations written by David Lloyd Dusenbury and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how Plato, one the fiercest legal critics in ancient Greece, became – in the longue durée – its most influential legislator. Making use of a vast scholarly literature, and offering original readings of a number of dialogues, it argues that the need for legal critique and the desire for legal permanence set the long arc of Plato’s corpus—from the Apology to the Laws. Modern philosophers and legal historians have tended to overlook the fact that Plato was the most prolific legislator in ancient Greece. In the pages of his Republic and Laws, he drafted more than 700 statutes. This is more legal material than can be credited to the archetypal Greek legislators—Lycurgus, Draco, and Solon. The status of Plato’s laws is unique, since he composed them for purely hypothetical cities. And remarkably, he introduced this new genre by writing hard-hitting critiques of the Greek ideal of the sovereignty of law. Writing in the milieu in which immutable divine law vied for the first time with volatile democratic law, Plato rejected both sources of law, and sought to derive his laws from what he called ‘political technique’ (politikê technê). At the core of this technique is the question of how the idea of justice relates to legal and institutional change. Filled with sharp observations and bold claims, Platonic Legislations shows that it is possible to see Plato—and our own legal culture—in a new light “In this provocative, intelligent, and elegant work D. L. Dusenbury has posed crucial questions not only as regards Plato’s thought in the making, but also as regards our contemporaneity.”—Giorgio Camassa, University of Udine “There is a tension in Greek law, and in Greek legal thinking, between an understanding of law as unchangeable and authoritative, and a recognition that formal rules are often insufficient for the interpretation of reality, and need to be constantly revised to match it. Dusenbury’s book illuminates the sophistication of Plato’s legal thought in its engagement with this tension, and explores the potential of Plato’s reflection for modern legal theory.”—Mirko Canevaro, The University of Edinburgh
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Download or read book The Dionysian Vision of the World written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the world knew of the thinker who “philosophizes with a hammer,” there was a young, passionate thinker who was captivated by the two forces found within Greek art: Dionysus and Apollo. In this essay, which was the forerunner to his groundbreaking book The Birth of Tragedy, The Dionysian Vision of the World provides an unparalleled look into the philosophical mind of one of Europe’s greatest and provocative intellects at the beginning of his philosophical interrogation on the subject of art. “While dreaming is the game man plays with reality as an individual, the visual artist (in the larger sense) plays a game with dreaming.” This is the Dionysian vision of the world.
Download or read book Companion to Literary Myths Heroes and Archetypes written by Pierre Brunel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in French in 1988, and in English in 1992, this companion explores the nature of the literary myth in a collection of over 100 essays, from Abraham to Zoroaster. Its coverage is international and draws on legends from prehistory to the modern age throughout literature, whether fiction, poetry or drama. Essays on classical figures, as well as later myths, explore the origin, development and various incarnations of their subjects. Alongside entries on western archetypes, are analyses of non-European myths from across the world, including Africa, China, Japan, Latin America and India. This book will be indispensable for students and teachers of literature, history and cultural studies, as well as anyone interested in the fascinating world of mythology. A detailed bibliography and index are included. ‘The Companion provides a fine interpretive road map to Western culture’s use of archetypal stories.’ Wilson Library Review ‘It certainly is a comprehensive volume... extremely useful.’ Times Higher Education Supplement
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Download or read book I the Supreme written by Augusto Roa Bastos and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.
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Download or read book They Forged the Signature of God written by Viriato Sención and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid exposé of corruption and political tyranny in the Dominican Republic rang so true to the reality that the President of that country went on television to denounce the book. Sención's novel follows the lives of three seminary students who suffer from church-state oppression. The book also gives a chilling portrait of Dr. Ramos, a sinister autocrat, who manages to survive six terms as president of his country through manipulation and tyranny.
