Product Description: Ensayo que pretende ser un viaje al interior del cráneo en busca de la conciencia, o al menos de las huellas que deja impresas en las redes neuronales. Al llegar a la publicación de la presente obra el autor está convencido de que ha reunido elementos suficientes para exponer un ensayo tentativo y exploratorio de los grandes enigmas a los que se enfrenta la ciencia en este campo...read more

Product Description: In this unique exploration of the mysteries of the human brain, Roger Bartra shows that consciousness is a phenomenon that occurs not only in the mind but also in an external network, a symbolic system. He argues that the symbolic systems created by humans in art, language, in cooking or in dress, are the key to understanding human consciousness...read more

Product Description: Throughout seven essays, Roger Bartra explores the issue of terror and otherness, as well as their consequences in contemporary society. From an anthropological view, the work shows how foreign, marginal, savage and barbarian represents the otherone that confront, threat and deny its own, an issue that has led a disturbing number of attacks and radical cutting motions that on one hand, threaten cultural diversity and on the other, leads us to question the supposed hegemony of the Western civilization...read more

Product Description: Until the year 2000, when Vicente Fox of the National Action Party won the presidential election, Mexico was ruled by one of the most enduring autocratic regimes of the twentieth century, the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Here Roger Bartra chronicles the key moments that led to the Mexican transition to democracy and reflects on the different aspects of civic culture, the political process, and electoral struggles that played a role in that journey...read more

Product Description: Roger Bartra firmly believes that to understand the society in which we live in, there is no other way but to submerge ourselves in the shadow of the future, this book is a careful analysis of the political regime change in Mexico, spreading several phases that helps understand how the first decade of the 21st century is formed and what tomorrow has for the country...read more

Product Description: This anthropological essay unravels the mystery behind the myth of the European savage. Analyzing diverse phenomena spanning through a wide period of time, like the iconographic representations and the literary expressions of the Middle Ages, and the homo sylvestris imported by the Spanish to the colonized lands, Bartra develops the theory that for every piece of cultural and political progress in the West, and for every milestone in European society, there is the image of a savage counterpointing the borders of civility, and shaping the identity of modern European men...read more

Product Description: This multifaceted anthology follows the traces of the Mexican amphibian axolotl. The many texts and images selected show the works of authors such as Bernardino de Sahagún, Aldous Huxley, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Diego Rivera, and Ulf Rollof, on this fascinating animal, and bring together approaches from science, mythology, literature, art, and pop culture...read more

Product Description: Este libro es mucho más que un divertido gabinete de curiosidades y una inquietante galería de monstruos, locos y prodigios. La propuestra de Bartra constituye un sorprendente giro crítico en la antropología contemporánea: da la espalda decididamente al estructuralismo para invocar una interpretación evolucionista de la cu...read more

Product Description: Una brillante y profunda exploracion de la fractura del sistema politico mexicano La transicion democratica mexicana ha sufrido una grave herida a consecuencia de las elecciones presidenciales de 2006. La situacion es peligrosa porque en Mexico no se viven las peculiares divisiones politicas propias de una pluralidad democratica, sino las dislocadoras secuelas de una profunda fractura...read more

Product Description: Despite melancholy’s long tenure in European history, little attention has been paid to the subject of melancholy during the Spanish Golden Age, in spite of its enormous importance to Spanish thinking and culture. This volume demonstrates that the melancholy that prevailed in this historical period is an indispensable link in a chain which may help us to further understand the appearance of sadness and malcontent in Europe at the dawn of modernity...read more

Product Description: Este libro expone, desde el punto de vista de un antropólogo, los extraordinarios avances de las ciencias dedicadas a explorar el cerebro humano. Neurólogos y psiquiatras están convencidos de que allí residen los procesos mentales...read more

Product Description: Roger Bartra resume en este libro sus intereses intelectuales: el comportamiento de la izquierda, la definicion de la derecha, el levantamiento zapatista y la tradicion indigena; la crisis del nacionalismo, el arte oficial y el laberinto que nos heredo Octavio Paz: los grandes problemas de identidad de los mexicanos...read more

Product Description: Este libro es una reflexion critica sobre la cultura mexicana contemporanea. Se han elegido los lugares comunes del caracter del mexicano: se trata de un manojo de estereotipos codificados por la intelectualidad, pero cuyas huellas se reproducen en la sociedad, provocando el espejismo de una cultura popular de masas...read more

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Product Description: Este libro explica cómo la filosofía ilustrada, la sociología moderna y el pensamiento crítico se han enfrentado al oscuro mundo irracional. El autor aborda aquí un extraño enigma: ¿por qué la irracionalidad y el desorden mental logran alojarse en el corazón de la cultura moderna orientada por el racionalismo?, y busca la respuesta en Kant, Weber y Benjamin, quienes, acostumbrados a la intensa luz de sus ideas, reconocieron la presencia inquietante del sol negro que menciona Nerval, pero no lograron formarse su imagen...read more

Product Description: Este libro es una reflexion critica, y ya clasica sobre la cultura mexicana contemporanea. Se han elegido los lugares comunes del caracter del mexicano; se trata de un manojo de estereotipos codificados por la intelectualidad, pero cuyas huellas se reproducen en la sociedad provocando el espejismo de una cultura popular de masas...read more

Product Description: La cultura mexicana del siglo XX invento un ser nacional cuya identidad, a pesar de ser poco concreta y cambiante, sirvio como importante presencia imaginaria e influyo en la constitucion de un poder politico nacional: al plantear la configuracion de un modelo nacionalista y revolucionario de los mexicanos, la identidad se transformo en mecanismo legitimador...read more

Pens and swords, words and blows: for Roger Bartra, the culture of ink and the culture of blood offer two contrasting approaches to the political transformations of our time. In this compilation of essays, Bartra thinks through these transformations by tracing the complex interplay between popular culture, nationalist ideology, civil society, and the state in contemporary Mexico. Written with verve over a period of twenty years, these essays—most translated into English here for the first time—suggest why Bartra has become one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals. The essays cover a broad range of topics, from the canonical forms of Mexican culture to the meaning of postnational identity in a globalizing age, from the repercussions of the 1994 Zapatista uprising to the 2000 election of Vicente Fox and the end of the PRI’s seven-decade rule. Across this range of topics, Bartra imparts astute insights into a critical period of transition in Mexican history, stressing throughout the importance of democracy, the complexity of identity, and the vibrancy of the Left. In Blood, Ink, and Culture, he provides a stimulating inside look at political and intellectual life in the southern reaches of North America. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: An absorbing look at the mythical Wild Man in Western culture

The author, a Mexican American performance artist, examines race relations in the United States, 'borders' imposed on immigrants, and art (view table of contents)

Product Description: Identifying the inadequacies of older models regarding peasants and agrarian development, this book shows how the Mexican peasant economy has made important steps in the accumulation of capital - an essential phase in the development towards capitalism.

Product Description: Book by Bartra, Roger