La aventura del barco encantado y nuevas notas sobre las escrituras del viaje en el Quijote

Integran este número de la revista ponencias presentadas en Studia Hispanica Medievalia VIII: Actas de las IX Jornadas Internacionales de Literatura Española Medieval, 2008, y de Homenaje al Quinto Centenario de Amadis de Gaula.

Notable reacción europea ante otro intento laicista : El crucifijo en las escuelas italianas y la Corte de Estrasburgo (a propósito de la sentencia “Lautsi c. Italy”)

Resumen: Del mismo modo como hace no muchos años la ciudadanía europea se conmovió frente al planteo sobre las raíces cristianas en el momento de redactar la Constitución de la Unión Europea, dando lugar a numerosos discursos sobre la necesidad de no olvidar la verdadera cultura y enseñanza que había ennoblecido al Viejo Mundo, hace casi un año una sentencia proveniente de la Corte de Estrasburgo aplicable al Estado italiano, el caso “Lautsi c. Italy”, ha generado numerosas reacciones en diferentes sectores intelectuales permitiendo el desarrollo de notables argumentos que han intentado desenmascarar los verdaderos rostros que se encontraban velados detrás de los lugares comunes de la argumentación jurídico-política de los últimos dos siglos, especialmente los de laicidad, neutralidad, igualdad y libertad. De este modo la radicalización y desarrollo llevado al extremo de las premisas de la Ilustración ha mostrado su real fisonomía y consecuencia. Para tal propósito el análisis se concentra en la apelación a la Grande Chambre presentada por el Estado italiano y los sucesivos aportes provenientes de la doctrina europea, especialmente a través de valiosos Congresos y Jornadas dedicados a la problemática.

La conexión árabe : una hipótesis sobre el surgimiento sociopolítico de Israel en Palestina

Abstract: Recent scholarship has shown that there is no solid archaeological or epigraphic evidence to deem the narratives about the rise to kingship of David and his son Solomon as reflecting the rise and consolidation of Israel as a Nation-State during the 10th century BCE. It is rather during the 9th century in the Palestinian highlands that we can find the emergence of a socio-political entity named Bīt Humri/ya or Israel in the contemporary archaeological and epigraphic records, but with an ambiguous character as a state. In this paper, it is suggested the possibility that the rise of such a polity and the constitution of an ethnogenesis are notably and directly related to the appearance of the Arabian network of exchanges in the early first millennium BCE in the Near East. Furthermore, from a critical point of view, one may suggest that there is no direct ethnic connection between the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and the later Jewish cults of Yahweh in Palestine.

Das paradies in der politik ein kapitel negativer kosmologie

Abstract: The idea of a “paradise in politics” is an answer to the cosmogonic- anthropogonic problem that, through their bodies, the life of human beings has been shaped politically from the very beginning: all creation is a creation of bodies and bodies are power. All creation, furthermore, means separation, it emerges through a multiplicity of things and beings only. The conventional solution for the problem, in the realm of human beings, consists in forming societies out of a multiplicity of indivuals that remains as such. The solution of a “paradise in politics”, however, envisions a “healing” of creation through a bodily transmutation by which a world of bodies emerges that is freed from the problem of bodies: separation, power. The article discusses the negative cosmology with which all tales on a paradise in politics start. It shows the essential role of phantasy in the constitution of these tales, and elucidates the principal structural elements through which visions of a paradise in politics are built. A special attention is given to the parallelism between these visions and known religious thought, as in the case of the concepts of apokatastasis or perichoresis, for instance. Methodically, the article achieves a demonstration of its subject by an extensive presentation and analysis of two case studies: Rousseau’s vision of a “terrestrial paradise” and the attempt at “bodily redemption” put on the stage in 1968-69 by the “Living Theatre” Group with its performance “Paradise Now”.