Sindéresis

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Presenting the work of Miguel de Unamuno and Albert Camus as paradigmatic, the present study examines the significance and function of the -tragic- in a modern context, using a historical, socio-political approach. This approach permits the tragic to be seen as a product of specific historical circumstances, rather than as a fundamental, metaphysical aspect of the human condition, first revealed in Greek Tragedy and still evident today. In addition, a connection is made between Unamuno's and Camus's controversial political positions taken at the end of their lives and their insistence upon a...

Tradicionalmente Manuel Gonzalez Prada (Peru: 1844-1918) se ha considerado como un anarquista ateo. En este libro, Thomas Ward desafia esta vision tradicional del ensayista peruano. Hay dos proposiciones fundamentales. La primera confirma que Gonzalez Prada no es ateo, sino panteista. La segunda postula, paradojicamente, que Gonzalez Prada deriva su anarquismo de un analisis panteista de la vida de Jesucristo, de acuerdo con las normas de la filologia decimononica."

Un trabajo que estudia la compleja relación entre exilio y literatura en la Argentina durante un período de profundos cambios sociales y políticos. A work that studies the complex relationship between exile and literature in Argentina during a period of profound social and political change.