Las fosas de Franco

Ensayo ilustrado de la historia cultural de mesoamérica. Se inicia con un estudio de los primeros habitantes del continente, y culmina con la descripción de la civilización azteca, de la que, naturalmente, se cuenta con muchísimos datos.

En la Nueva España, la fama pública de numerosos eclesiásticos se basaba en su buen desempeño en el púlpito y el confesionario, así como en la publicación de libros religiosos. Dos manuales devotos le valieron a Fernando Martagón su ingreso en la Biblioteca Hispanoamericana Sepetentrional de Beristáin de Souza. En este célebre repertorio, Martagón pasó a la posteridad como un “varón celosísimo de la salud de las almas” por haberse empleado muchos años en la dirección espiritual de hombres y mujeres. Sin embargo, en el Secreto de la Inquisición de México se archivó un...

This collection is the final volume of a four book survey of the state of phenomenology fifty years after the death of Edmund Husserl. Its publication represents a landmark in the comprehensive treatment of contemporary phenomenology in all its vastness and richness. The diversity of the issues raised here is dazzling, but the main themes of Husserl's thought are all either explicitly treated, or else they underlie the ingenious approaches found here. Time, historicity, intentionality, eidos, meaning, possibility/reality, and teleology are the main concerns of this collection devoted to...

The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an edition and English translation of its glosses in the Riesencodex (with assistance from the Berlin MS) , but also places it ...