Jeremy Bentham y los lectores neogranadinos

Rostro de viejo adusto, ascética imagen de solterón empecinado, cansancio en la mirada: estampa de un ausente, en solitaria compañía de una memoria de fantasma que acechan. Su nombre es Juan Bautista Alberdi. Jean Jaurés lo tuvo por igual de Tocquevilla y Laboulaye, y aun de Monterquieu. Asomarse a su obra nos depara una inteligencia alerta y penetrante, un indagador minucioso, un hábil argumentador. La vocación de su vida fue pensar una patria. Poco lo visitaron los halagos, mucho lo acosaron las agonía. El compromiso con sus verdades y sus audacias lo llevó a vivir cuarenta años...

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Reflecting on the daily life of people in history, this series examines the culture of ancient civilizations and their time in history. They provide the reader with a glimpse of how each culture lived, worked, related to one another, and worshipped, as well as the eccentricities and peculiarities for which they are well known. Reflejando la vida cotidiana de la gente común, esta colección examina las culturas civilizaciones antiguas y su lugar en la historia. Ofrecen un compendio sobre las tareas diarias, la organización familiar y la práctica de la religión, así como las...

Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.