2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, spoke to the community of University of Saint Thomas, the first and only college in Texas to implement the Micro-Credit Program of which…
Prophecies about the “end” (of history, of ideologies, of “everything”) have long accompanied the adventures of criticism and change in the West. In our time, from Hegel to Alexandre Kojève,…
Download Complete PDF / Descargar In a career spanning more than six decades, Freud (British, b. Germany, 1922), has redefined portraiture and the nude through his frank scrutiny of the human form. On view…
It would seem that we have surpassed the idea of evil as a notion sustained by theologians and rationalists who failed to pinpoint the location of that particular impulse. But…
Download Complete PDF / Descargar The reward of a retrospective is to observe the development of an artist, the key moments, and the collective summation of the work. John Alexander: A Retrospective On…
Estamos obligados filosófica y literariamente a comenzar este análisis con Las flores del mal de Baudelaire, cuya primera edición data de 1857. Su primera página y primer poema está dedicado…
Hace algunos años asistí, en Barcelona, a una conferencia de Brian Aldiss. En su charla, el gran autor inglés abordó una apasionada defensa del estatus literario de la ciencia-ficción (CF),…
Cuando yo era estudiante de medicina (hace unos 50 años), en el público prevalecía la idea de que el diagnóstico de cáncer era igual a muerte. Esta idea no se…
Para Alma Guillermoprieto El despertador hizo un clic antes de que se encendiera la radio a las siete de la mañana. Ya estaba esperándolo, aunque seguía amodorrado. Los primeros rayos…
The night does not advance. I open a book and try to populate the hours with unfamiliar characters that softly lead me by the hand through the pages of others’…