Cultura E Identidad Nacional

Los pliegos que aquí se presentan fueron escritos por Agustín de Iturbide en su exilio europeo. Son la evocación y el alegato que ubican la conducta política de un hombre escorzado. Desde una encrucijada incierta, Iturbide mandó este opúsculo en el interior de una botella encorchada al océano de la historia. Continúa indeleble pero a la deriva pues no ha recibido la debida valoración de los historiadores. En él su autor, el mismo al que se le ha negado la paternidad de la Independencia mexicana, se muestra con la sinceridad de la desolación y el ensimismamiento.

La obra constituye una fenomenología del destino de la cultura occidental, frente al fin de siglo, intentando extraer una lógica de nuestra situación a partir del estudio cuidadoso de un movimiento: el Romanticismo. Auscultando los anhelos, nostalgias y esfuerzos de un puñado de individuos que anduvieron errantes por el mapa convulsionado de una Europa entre dos guerras, la revolucionaria-napoleónica y la Primera Guerra Mundial, se trata de entresacar una tipología de la “falta”, o sea: de los residuos que la máquina tecnocientífica del estado-nación nunca pudo asimilar ni...

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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...