¡Me vale madres! Reloaded

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...

The book consists of 5 chapters with 5 subchapters each. In the first chapter entitled "Civilization: Origin and Evolution" we present the details of the events that led to the construction of civilization: the Neolithic revolution, the events towards civilization, the first civilizations, the evolution of writing and science. In the second chapter "Wealth" we talked about how with the development of agriculture and breeding, trade, economics, finance and capitalism. The third chapter "The Power" talks about the origin of power, religion and power, wars, government and people. In the fourth...

Esta obra, que integra diversos enfoques y estéticas escriturales, es una apuesta por comprender el sentido de una ontología política desde América Latina, en la cual se reconocen y se deconstruyen los legados del pensamiento occidental, situando lo disruptivo, lo que emerge desde la “filosofía contextual andina” y el pensar latinoamericano.

La filosofia hermeneutica ha ampliado su radio de accion hasta convertirse hoy en un lugar comun de la cultura contemporanea, en una especie de nueva koine, que penetra las mas diversas formas de pensamiento. Pero el precio que ha pagado por ello es un perdida de sus perfiles filosoficos, difuminandose en una vaga teoria sobre el hecho universal de la interpretacion. Precisar el significado de la hermeneutica para la filosofia significa ir mas alla de esa inocua reflexion, en un intento de recuperar su sentido filosofico mas genuino, ligado a tesis ontologicas radicales. Esta es la propuesta...