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A Vigilant Society

Jewish Thought and the State in Medieval Spain

By: Javier Roiz

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A Vigilant Society

Jewish Thought and the State in Medieval Spain

By: Javier Roiz

Uncovers a fundamental change that took place in Western thinking, especially its departure from the Sephardic philosophy found in the Iberian Peninsula during the 13th century.

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SUNY Press

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1438445636

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9781438445632

Painting

By: Francisco Javier Saavedra-Macías,Samuel Arias-Sánchez,Ana Rodríguez-Gómez

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Painting

By: Francisco Javier Saavedra-Macías,Samuel Arias-Sánchez,Ana Rodríguez-Gómez

Easily digestible for even the busiest of readers, this book serves as a succinct, engaging, and informative guide on how the practice of painting can help improve or maintain health and wellbeing, both within and outside of professional settings.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1804553549

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9781804553541

A Vigilant Society

Jewish Thought and the State in Medieval Spain

By: Javier Roiz

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A Vigilant Society

Jewish Thought and the State in Medieval Spain

By: Javier Roiz

A Vigilant Society" presents a provocative hypothesis that argues that Western society as we know it emerged from the soil of Jewish intellectual advances in the thirteenth century, especially those formulated on the Iberian Peninsula. A paradigmatic shift began to occur, one that abandoned the pre Gothic Sephardic wisdom found in, for example, the writings of Maimonides in favor of what author Javier Roiz calls the vigilant society. This model embraces a conception of politics that includes a radical privatization of an individual s interior life and especially as adopted and adapted in later centuries by Roman Catholic and Calvinist thinkers is marked by a style of politics that accepts the dominance of power and control as given. Vigilant society laid the foundation for the Western understanding of politics and its institutions and remains pervasive in today s world.

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1461921406

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9781461921400

The Anatomy of a Moment

By: Javier Cercas

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The Anatomy of a Moment

By: Javier Cercas

In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Franco's dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for a new prime minister - Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into the Spanish parliament and began firing shots. Only three members of Congress defied the incursion and did not dive for cover,: Adolfo Suarez the then outgoing prime minister, who had steered the country away from the Franco era, Guttierez Mellado, a conservative general who had loyally served democracy, and Santiago Carillo, the head of the Communist Party, which had just been legalised. In The Anatomy of a Moment, Cercas examines a key moment in Spanish history, just as he did so successfully in his Spanish Civil War novel, Soldiers of Salamis. This is the only coup ever to have been caught on film as it was happening, which, as Cercas says, 'guaranteed both its reality and its unreality'. Every February a few seconds of the video are shown again and Spaniards congratulate themselves for standing up for democracy, but Cercas says that things were very quiet that afternoon and evening while all over Spain people stayed inside waiting for the coup to be defeated .... or to triumph.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408822105

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9781408822104

Edificio España

El peligro de la desigualdad. Premio Espasa 2022

By: Javier Ruiz

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Edificio España

El peligro de la desigualdad. Premio Espasa 2022

By: Javier Ruiz

El peligro de la desigualdad Edificio España es el retrato y la denuncia de una desigualdad creciente en nuestro país. La brecha entre ricos y pobres se ensancha y ha desbordado ya la economía para extenderse al mundo de la política —cuyo resultado es una polarización extrema— y al de la propia democracia, con el nacimiento de un «precariado político» de clases bajas que se descuelgan del sistema y dejan de votar y de tener importancia. Esa desigualdad se retroalimenta y está averiando los tradicionales ascensores sociales: los impuestos dejan de gravar más a los que más tienen y la educación y las pensiones dejan de garantizar el ascenso o la protección social. El resultado es un edificio en el que los más ricos ganan más y los más pobres cada vez tienen menos, diferencias que se van enraizando en nuestra comunidad, de manera que quienes nacen pobres no pueden ascender y quienes nacen ricos nunca dejan de serlo. La desigualdad es también empresarial y afecta incluso a la libertad de expresión, donde las líneas editoriales comienzan a servir a las grandes fortunas en lugar de a los grandes públicos. Este es el estado actual de nuestro Edificio España. Hacen falta reformas urgentes para evitar que se derrumbe.

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Espasa

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8467067470

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9788467067477

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