«Una rica y exuberante investigación sobre los orígenes del pensamiento filosófico en la cultura griega».New York Review of Books ¿Cómo podemos hablar hoy sobre los inicios de la filosofía? ¿Cómo evitar la tradicional oposición entre mito y logos y, en su lugar, explorar los múltiples estilos de pensamiento que surgieron entre ambos extremos? En este esclarecedor ensayo, Maria Michela Sassi reconstruye, mediante una exploración lúcida y detallista, el mundo intelectual de los presocráticos para ofrecer una comprensión matizada de las raíces de lo que más tarde se conocería como «el milagro griego». De Mileto a Elea, de Éfeso a Agrigento, Sassi comienza por las preguntas canónicas —el cuándo y el cómo del origen del pensamiento, sus reflexiones en torno al orden cósmico, su naturaleza concreta y sus formas distintivas— para trazar la historia del saber arcaico y analizar, además, el ambiente de competencia intelectual, la descentralización geográfica y la adopción de una prosa más directa —similar a la utilizada para redactar las leyes de la polis—; una prosa que permitió a los filósofos y científicos jonios ejercitarse sin circunloquios en la razón crítica, y así revolucionar definitivamente el conocimiento griego y, en última instancia, fundar la filosofía occidental.

Vols. for 1969- include a section of abstracts.

Los mitos, frecuentemente representaciones humanas de seres irracionales, inanimados o abstractos, sirven para liberar fantasías, miedos e ilusiones; además de ayudarnos a comprender algunas claves de nuestra cultura occidental.

Ya no existe Troya, la más grande de las ciudades antiguas! En estos preciosos cuentos, se presenta el conjunto de historias quizás más apasionante y famoso de la mitología griega. Paris y Helena, Aquiles, Héctor... junto a otros menos conocidos, cobran vida auténtica a través de estás páginas, que cautivarán y emocionarán a los lectores.

Le Médecin Genevois Jacques Ballexserd (1726-1774) et 1' “Education Physique des Enfants” /G. De Morsier --Bellini's Concept of Catarrh: An Examination of a Seventeenth-Century Iatromechanical Viewpoint /G. M. Klass --Les Origines de la Transfusion Sanguine. III /Jean-Jacques Peumery --Book Reviews --Circulation Physiology and Medical Chemistry in England 1650-1680. AUDREY B. DAVIS, Coronado Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 1973, 263 pp, with illus, US Dollar8.50. /Arthur Donovan --Microbiology and the Spontaneous Generation Debate during the 1870's. GLENN VANDERVLIET, Coronado Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 1971, 147 pp, with illus, US Dollar5. /Norman Howard-Jones --C. G. Kratzenstein, Professor Physices Experimentalis Petropol. et Havn. and His Studies on Electricity during the Eighteenth Century. E. SNORRASON, Odense University Press. Odense, Denmark, 1974, 206 pp, with illus. /Lester S. King --Medicine and Man. NOËL POYNTER, Penguin Books, London, 1973, 196 pp, US Dollar2.25. /William K. Beatty --Pills, Profits, and Politics. MILTON SILVERMAN and PHILIP R. LEE, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1974, xviii + 403 pp, US Dollar10.95. /James Harvey Young --The Life and Times of Thomas Wakley. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, Huntington, Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., New York, 1974, 509 pp, facsimile of 1899 ed. /Norman Howard-Jones --The House of Life Per Ankh. Magic and Medical Science in Ancient Egypt. PAUL GHALIOUNGUI, B. M. Israël, Amsterdam, 1973, 198 pp, 26 pls., 17 illus. Hfl. 48,-. /Vilh. Möller-Christensen --Contributors to this Issue.

This book addresses contemporary discourses on a wide variety of topics related to the ideological and epistemological changes of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, and the ways in which they have shaped the Spanish language and cultural manifestations in both Spain and Hispanic America. The majority of the chapters are concerned with ‘otherness’ in its various dimensions; the alien Other – foreign, immigrant, ethnically different, disempowered, female or minor – as well as the Other of different sexual orientation and/or ideology. Following Octavio Paz, otherness is expressed as the attempt to find the lost object of desire, the frustrating endeavour of the androgynous Plato wishing to embrace the other half of Zeus, who in his wrath, tore off from him. Otherness compels human beings to search for the complement from which they were severed. Thus a male joins a female, his other half, the only half that not only fills him but which allows him to return to the unity and reconciliation which is restored in its own perfection, formerly altered by divine will. As a result of this transformation, one can annul the distance that keeps us away from that which, not being our own, turns into a source of anguish. The clashing diversity of all things requires the human predisposition to accept that which is different. Such a predisposition is an expression of epistemological, ethical and political aperture. The disposition to co-exist with the different is imagined in the de-anthropocentricization of the bonds with all living realms. And otherness is, in some way, the reflection of sameness (mismidad). The other is closely related to the self, because the vision of the other implies a reflection about the self; it implies, consciously or not, a relationship with the self. These topics are addressed in this book from an interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing arts, humanities and social sciences.