Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]

The book is dedicated to the presence of Greek history in the works of Cyprian Norwid. According to the poet, the Greek origins contributed to the creation of mechanisms that make it possible to diagnose the spiritual condition of the contemporary times through analyzing its relation to the Greek myth of the “Golden Age”. Ideologization of the way…[Read more]

This article explores the way assumptions about gender prevalent in twenty-first century readers impact our understanding of Sarai. It interrogates the way a mere glimpse allows us to instantaneously assign a person gender, something trans theorist Julia Serano calls gendering. Through this article, we see how the third-party accounts of Sarai in…[Read more]

This article explores the way assumptions about gender prevalent in twenty-first century readers impact our understanding of Sarai. It interrogates the way a mere glimpse allows us to instantaneously assign a person gender, something trans theorist Julia Serano calls gendering. Through this article, we see how the third-party accounts of Sarai in…[Read more]

The article contains an analysis of the genealogy of 19th-century Polish research in the field of literary history. My inquiry contains a comparison between literary research in Germany and in Poland. From this point of view, literary history was an important factor in the process of building a modern nation. Furthermore, literary historians also…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Notas, debates y comentarios con ocasión del congreso The “Holocaust Metaphor” (La ́Metáfora del Holocausto ́), en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Zaragoza (a finales de mayo de 2013). _________________________________________________________________________

English abstract: Notes, debates and comm…[Read more]

country, due to two reasons: one, the high growth of the economy determined by high oil revenues, two, the lack of
This article analyzes the immigration policy of the Venezuelan State during administration of Pérez Jiménez (1952-1958). From December 1952 until January 1958, Marcos Pérez Jiménez governs Venezuela, first as interim president (un…[Read more]

The following historiographical study is referred to the History of the Portuguese in Venezuela (1959), by Miguel Acosta Saignes, it hill analyze the work of critical and reflective way, both internally and externally, to elucidate its contribution to one of the process greatest historic modern Venezuela, such as immigration, as well as…[Read more]

This paper analyzes the public life of Ildefonso Riera Aguinagalde (1834-1882) as a writer and politician who participated in the vagaries of the construction of the national state in the Venezuela’s nineteenth century. Based on a systematic historiographical review and consultation of primary sources, the Riera Aguinagalde political action was r…[Read more]

This article analyses the influence of the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) on the conceptual history of Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006), as well as the intellectual relationship between them. In this sense, the main biographical features of both academics have been revised, and a re-examination of the ideas —of temporality and l…[Read more]

This essay analyzes from the perspective of historical revisionism the Communism during the first half of the twentieth century, based on the specialized historiography. It is part of the analysis of Communism as an ideology, system and use of political violence and it is compared with Nazism. In both, Nazism and Communism, similar features are…[Read more]

We say, you belong to me, or I belong to you. But is it possible to be possessed by others? And can we ever possess ourselves? In this raw and intimate account, Eva-Lynn Jagoe merges memoir with critical theory as she recounts the unraveling of everything she thought she knew about selfhood, relationships, and desire. Through the story of an…[Read more]

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In her paper on “Invasion, Infection, Invisibility: An Iconology of Illegalized
Immigration”, FRANCESCA FALK contrasts in a paradigmatic way
two photos of boat people: Either immigration is depicted as an invasion,
or an individual refugee is portrayed as a victim, following the tradition of
the Christian Iconography. Yet both discussed pic…[Read more]

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Ein Streifzug durch die Szene der Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten in
Tunesien zeigt neben anhaltender Repression und Ernüchterung eine
starke Politisierung der Gesellschaft, viel Selbstbewusstsein und Mut.
DieWahlen waren für sie nur ein kleiner Schritt, den einige boykottiert
haben. Ihre Botschaft: Die Revolution hat erst begonnen, in T…[Read more]

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