El capital sexual en la Modernidad tardía

A vegetarian himself, Leo Tolstoy believed that all human beings pursuing a righteous life should stop animal cruelty and become vegetarian. In his philosophical essays on the principles of vegetarianism, Tolstoy considers this diet as an extension of an ethical and moral life. His arguments are impassioned and eloquent, affirming that eating meat is an immoral act. This collection of his teachings aims to reveal this relevant and inspiring aspect of Tolstoy's life. Mucha gente desconoce que el autor de Guerra y paz fue un vegetariano convencido; alguien que consideraba que quien desee hacer...

The Greeks did not think of madness as pathological, but instead as a divine possession, a type of knowledge and the possibility of happiness. The title essay in this book unveils the source of the most primal possession, the erotic one, caused by nymphs whose sudden and delirious rapture makes prisoners of men. For Calasso, possession is not exclusive to the ancient world, and, beyond the erotic, it is a perennial phenomenon that is experienced during life’s most basic and commonplace moments. Aby Warburg’s delirium for the nymph of Ghirlandaio, Humbert Humbert’s for Lolita in...

Concebida como esencialmente pedagógica, esta obra de Juan Plazaola es una Introducción a todos los problemas actuales de la Estética. Se abre con una visión panorámica de las ideas estéticas desde los presocráticos hasta hoy, para continuar con una exposición razonada de todas las cuestiones que debe abordar el estudio sistemático de la Estética, su método, la vivencia estética. el universo estético, el arte como habilidad técnica y como creación poética, sus referencias a la realidad, los aspectos genesíacos, productivos y autoexpresivos del quehacer artístico, el...

María Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes. A deeply original essayist, Lugones writes from her own perspective as an inhabitant of a number of different "worlds." Born in Argentina but living for a number of years in the United States, she sees herself as neither quite a U.S. citizen, nor quite an Argentine. An activist against the oppression of Latino/a people by the dominant U.S. culture, she is also an academic participating in the ...