El inocente

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Fray Antonio Alcalde y Barriga. Los matices de una leyenda. Obra de Lilia Esthela Bayardo Rodríguez. Publicación de Editorial Universidad de Guadalajara.

"Three years of captivity among the Patagones" is an exceptional ethnological document, but to its documentary value it adds the attraction and intensity of an adventures novel. It narrates the extraordinary experience of Auguste Guinnard, a young French immigrant who, around 1850, gets lost in the Pampas and is captured by native tribes who considered every foreigner a foe. Bound to a cruel slavery among the last nomads of Patagonia, Guinnard, was forced to sleep in the ground, and survive naked feeding from raw meat and fresh blood. In spite of being despised, and often chastised even by...

Una invitación a descubrir la trayectoria vital e intelectual del pensador y ensayista más moderno, estimulante y perdurable de la España del siglo XX. «Si hubiera sido francés, sería Sartre; si inglés, Russell; si alemán, Heidegger. Pero fue español. Se llamaba José Ortega y Gasset.» Ortega y Gasset es uno de esos nombres que todos conocemos, pero del que poco podemos decir al respecto. Lo mismo pasa con otros gigantes de la filosofía como Descartes, Kant o Hegel. En este texto, Carlos Peña, doctor en Filosofía y rector de la Universidad Diego Portales, pone remedio al...