C?rlos V. De Borbon

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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...

Los bombardeos atómicos sobre Hiroshima y Nagasaki fueron ataques nucleares ordenados por Harry S. Truman, presidente de los Estados Unidos, contra el Imperio del Japón. Los ataques se efectuaron el 6 y el 9 de agosto de 1945, y ayudaron a poner fin a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Después de seis meses de intenso bombardeo de otras 67 ciudades, el arma nuclear Little Boy fue soltada sobre Hiroshima el lunes 6 de agosto de 1945, seguida por la detonación de la bomba Fat Man el jueves 9 de agosto sobre Nagasaki. Hasta la fecha, estos bombardeos constituyen los únicos ataques nucleares de la...

En esta excelente muestra de su erudición, Edgar Morin ensaya una antropología de la barbarie que recorre toda la historia occidental. En este libro el autor hace referencia a los dos grandes totalitarismos que dominaron el siglo XX –el hitlerismo y el estalinismo-, pero también a los desastres de la era poscolonial, emergentes del imperialismo europeo. Dedica un espacio importante a los grupos y personas que se opusieron a las explosiones de barbarie –y que califica de “antídotos culturales”- y propone categorías filosóficas que ayudan a identificar la irrupción constante del...