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What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...

En un mundo que ofrece soluciones simples y rápidas como el más alto valor del mercado, John Caputo nos desafía con este texto, que propone “devolver su dificultad a las cosas”. Cosa difícil es el camino a la verdad, al acuerdo, al sentido de la vida y de la convivencia, al amor y el acceso al misterio del otro y del Otro, pero es el camino para ser personas y simplificarlo puede convertirse en el más radical de los peligros. En su Hermenéutica radical, “el libro con que presenté por primera vez mi propio pensamiento”, según refiere el autor, Caputo nos ofrece una guía y...

Este libro traza la génesis de los poemas homéricos y nos invita a releerlos reponiendo estos episodios en la historia de la Grecia antigua. Muestra, particularmente, que la sociedad y la civilización material descritas en la Ilíada y en la Odisea son casi las mismas, mientras que la función de los dioses y la ideología real divergen profundamente.