El vuelo de Ícaro

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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...

La historia más reciente, la del siglo que acaba de terminar y especialmente la de sus últimas décadas, presenta problemas particulares para sus estudio. El ritmo histórico se ha acelerado, las sociedades son cada vez más complejas y la globalización conduce a la interdependencia de estados y culturas, cuyas historias ya no se pueden hacer aisladamente. Se impone que los historiadores de los distintos paises confronten sus experiencias, sus problemas, sus métodos. Eso es lo que hacen en este libro destacadas figuras de las historiografías francesa y española. Las diversas facetas de...

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...