Denigración y elogio de Balboa en el Canto general de Neruda /

Actas Simposio Intercontinental Pablo Neruda, p. 139-158

Elogio de un inmigrante

ResumenConferencia inaugural del Doctorado en Historia de la universidad nacional.AbstractInaugural lecture of the doctoral program in history at the University of Costa Rica.   

THE ETHICS OF READER

We have long been critics of the creative work of philosophers and culture at the tender touch of his words, written or verbal, are both with the "hammer" that whoever owns the Ethics in writer-reader relationship is the first, called "comprehensive architect of the word" but inveterate dominant ideals of multiple anonymous.With this statement suggests that the second of this connection is nothing but a later, perhaps a "so and so" incognito benefits from its "home on earth", and who succeeds, after a long journey "cognitive "the privilege of reading. This old argument raised from ancient tradition, makes the reader a living subject-receptor but without providing the bulk of responsibility quantitative space offered by the marketing and consumption.Distrust of the concepts that attempt to establish a definition coldly detached from a bandage dressing, and the reader has not been imposed by the consumer society. In the sixteenth century came the paperback version, the books of Erasmus of Rotterdam were bestsellers in their time. The Praise of Folly and the political writings of Marthin Luther read at a time when the religious world was incorruptible, were read more than the Bible. Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis in the 1300's, that is, before you discover Gutenberg printing circulated throughout Europe in the Latin language, and even in the inscrutable rock monasteries under his cassock, in the secret place of the monk carrying the book. Accepting that the reader is a result of the market, is to bring the book to reified object category and inapreciar history book.

In Praise of Library History

This article marks the decline of the historical study of the Library meet the increase in studies on technology-driven globalization and the predominance of technicality in the discipline, but it is essential to return to that historical knowledge if the Library want instituted as a fully scientific field of knowledge. Emphasized in the beginning of the Library from orality to the written record preserved by the archives and libraries and its close relation to the development of the science of history. It also establishes the link between documents librarians and historians to understand the past and present society.

En torno de Desiderio Erasmo y de Laus Stultitiae

El presente artículo aborda el Elogio de la Estulticia, con motivo del quingentésimo aniversario de su concepción. El artículo se ocupa del humanismo erasmiano, del humanismo de la Biblia y de la filosofía de Cristo (philosophia Christi), tanto como de la indefectible animadversión erasmiana respecto de la filosofía y la teología escolásticas, paladina en el legendario opúsculo erasmiano.