La historia de las sensibilidades ha sido durante de?cadas dominio exclusivo de unos pocos pioneros, ya que escribir el relato de la vida sensible y afectiva de los individuos y las sociedades de antan?o es un empen?o tan atractivo como complejo. No obsta...
Dejando de lado las pasiones multitudinarias, Alain Corbin esboza, con un estilo asequible, rico en referencias y detalles, la historia de la emoción más huidiza: «la alegría íntima experimentada en lo más profundo...
Durante miles de an?os, los seres humanos ignoraron gran parte de los territorios, paisajes y pobladores del planeta, y en los mapas las regiones desconocidas recibi?an el nombre de
El silencio no es la simple ausencia de ruido. Hace posible la fortaleza interior donde los grandes escritores, pensadores, eruditos y cre- yentes se han recogido durante siglos. Requi- sito indispensable para la contemplación, la fantasía,...
El silenci no és tan sols absència de soroll. En el passat, els homes dOccident assaborien les profunditats i els matisos del silenci. El consideraven la condició per al recolliment, per a lescolta dun mateix, per...
Everyone knows the windâs touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne witness to the wind and relied on it to...
Silence is not simply the absence of noise. It is within us, in the inner citadel that great writers, thinkers, scholars and people of faith have cultivated over the centuries.
How has the meaning of manhood changed over time? A History of Virility proposes a series of answers to this question by describing a trajectory that begins with ancient conceptions of male domination and privilege and examining how it persisted, with...
"My task is piecing together a puzzle.. I hope to reconstitute the existence of a person whose memory has been abolished.. I want to re-create him, to give him a second chance.. to become part of the memory of his century."
In the French canton of Brienne in November 1799, local authorities were scandalized when a crowd of girls broke through the doors of the church and rang the bells in order to mark the festival of St. Catherine. Religious use of the bells was forbidden...
Dispelling the lurid stereotypes portrayed in fiction, Alain Corbin depicts prostitution in nineteenth-century France not as a vice, crime, or disease, but as a well-organized business. Corbin reveals how the brothel served the sex industry in the same...
El pensamiento crítico francés de la últimas décadas se distingue por su disección de lo cotidiano. En esa misma tónica Alain Corbin compone 'El perfume o el miasma' considerando que nuestra historia de...