Revista Hispánica Moderna
28/01/2016
Clearly what I should read today: 68:1 (June 2015). It has Nicholson on Moro, of course, but it is the issue as a whole that looks nice to me. Axé.
Category: Bibliography
Reading Vallejo Against the Grain of Identity
16/12/2015
I like my abstract better than anything longer I have written on this matter. Taking as its point of departure not only the poetic subject in Vallejo as primordially fractured but the intimations in his prose works that like his contemporary J. L. Borges (“La nadería de la personalidad,” 1925) he eschewed the idea of … More Reading Vallejo Against the Grain of Identity
Campos de batalla
01/11/2015
Here is a book I would like to read. I am dying for research time and I am guessing that in order to get it, you have to really want it. Perhaps I am coming close to this. Axé.
Veblen on business in America
11/10/2015
Veblen does not adopt Adam Smith’s notion that the pursuit of self-interest leads naturally to the expansion of the common good, and that the hidden hand guides this economy towards optimal outcomes and uses of available resources: The outcome of this management of industrial affairs through pecuniary transactions, therefore, has been to dissociate the interests … More Veblen on business in America
También sucede en México
05/10/2015
La colocación en la Rectoría de la UNAM de una persona fiel al actual proyecto de autoritarismo neoliberal es de suma importancia para el régimen. Una Universidad Nacional verdaderamente democrática, participativa y plural rápidamente se convertiría en una enorme piedra en el zapato para la clase política dominante. Desde la perspectiva de Peña Nieto, urge … More También sucede en México
Vicente Rafael
30/09/2015
When I teach the modern Latin Amercan survey again, I will include even more than usual on nations, nationalism, and revolutions — including politics in Spain and the Philippines. Axé.
Hannah Arendt
16/08/2015
Hobbes was the true, though never fully recognized, philosopher of the bourgeoisie because he realized that acquisition of wealth conceived as a never-ending process can be guaranteed only by the seizure of political power, for the accumulating process must sooner or later force open all existing territorial limits. He foresaw that a society which had … More Hannah Arendt
Libraries and electronic copies exist
09/08/2015
I wanted to see this film here in Barcelona but I don’t think I am going to get to it. (There is so much else I have not done.) I will leave here the fantastic 1999 edition of the DK Eyewitness Barcelona Travel Guide because there is a 2014 one that can be had. I … More Libraries and electronic copies exist
Rosemond Tuve
08/08/2015
There is an article we should all read and discuss, as it is about the present. It is part of a symposium on the teaching of literature, where other luminaries presented as well. Tuve, Rosemond. “More Battle than Books.” Sewanee Review 55:4 (Oct.-Dec. 1947): 571-585. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27537774 This post is for all, but is … More Rosemond Tuve
Thomas Brudholm
19/07/2015
Most current talk of forgiveness and reconciliation in the aftermath of collective violence proceeds from an assumption that forgiveness is always superior to resentment and refusal to forgive. Victims who demonstrate a willingness to forgive are often celebrated as virtuous moral models, while those who refuse to forgive are frequently seen as suffering from a … More Thomas Brudholm
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