Andrés Bello

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Un original estudio de uno de los fenómenos culturales más universales y desconocidos. El dolor, que la mayor parte de las veces carece de justificación, posee sin embargo una historia. Los gestos de las vírgenes mártires, las burlas que acompañaron las desventuras de don Quijote, las penitencias que tuvieron lugar, a escondidas, en el interior de los conventos, las pequeñas comedias del masoquismo sexual, el teatro anatómico del Mundo Moderno, las muecas de los pacientes anestesiados, los dolores conscientes del trastorno nervioso o los inconscientes de la enfermedad mental, se dan...

En esta obra se analizan los usos públicos del pasado, los olvidos y los revisionismos promovidos en las conmemoraciones, la enseñanza de la historia patria y la conservación patrimonial, para consolidar e instalar las tradiciones patrióticas de la memoria nacional. Inicialmente se aborda la configuración de la Academia Colombiana de Historia –ACH–, como organismo emisor de la memoria oficial entre 1930 y 1960, en la articulación de cuatro mecanismos institucionales (un cuerpo de académicos dedicados a la historia como patriotismo y afición, la construcción de un proyecto...