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In Incomplete Conquests, Stephanie Joy Mawson uncovers the limitations of Spanish empire in the Philippines, unearthing histories of resistance, flight, evasion, conflict, and warfare from across the breadth of the Philippine archipelago during the seventeenth century. The Spanish colonization of the Philippines that began in 1565 has long been seen as heralding a new era of globalization, drawing together a multiethnic world of merchants, soldiers, sailors, and missionaries. Colonists sent reports back to Madrid boasting of the extraordinary number of souls converted to Christianity and the number of people paying tribute to the Spanish Crown. Such claims constructed an imagined imperial sovereignty and were not accompanied by effective consolidation of colonial control in many of the regions where conversion and tribute collection were imposed. Incomplete Conquests foregrounds the experiences of indigenous, Chinese, and Moro communities and their responses to colonial agents, weaving together stories that take into account the rich cultural and environmental diversity of this island world.

The objective of this book is not to recognize once again the sources of pre-Hispanic Amerindian or Afro-Hispanic thought in different regions and historical moments—a task that other critics have already accomplished admirably. Nor does this book attempt to return to the debates around the existence of a properly Latin American philosophy—a question that has also been thoroughly addressed. Rather, this book offers timely contributions to the process of conceptualizing a Latin American specificity and its forms of integration in larger contexts, both on the level of thought and the level of political and social praxis. To produce a critical reading of philosophy while also developing a philosophy of criticism is essential in cultures that continue to struggle for the decolonization of both thought and life. The first part of the book, “Biopower, Coloniality, and Emancipation in Latin America,” examines authors and addressses questions from Latin American contexts in dialogue with some of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. These texts analyze the contributions of these authors to debates on such topics as the problems of colonialism and coloniality, the critique of modernity, and violence. Discussions of these issues give rise to other questions linked to the notions of freedom, social change, post/trans/modernity, biopolitics, and other topics that are particularly relevant for interpreting the processes of national formation and modernization and for understanding the developments that have taken place in the decades following the end of the Cold War. The second part of the book, titled “Critico-Philosophical Re-Readings and Debates,” brings together texts that cover the work of philosophers whose ideas have strong links to Latin American thought. Benjamin, Foucault, and Bourdieu are all quite different thinkers, but they have in common the objective of deconstructing the discourse of power from different angles, providing forms of social consciousness that are in dialogue with Latin American critical and emancipatory projects on multiple levels. In addition to the above-mentioned philosophical directions, Peter Sloterdijk's undeniably polemical thought opens up a new path for the critique of humanism. These approaches are studied in the present book in texts that constitute moments of critical reflection which, while recognizing these authors'contributions to the development of critico-philosophical thought in peripheral areas, analyze aspects of their thought that can be interrogated and even challenged from a Latin American perspective. In this sense, this book suggests that, from the vantage point of Latin American cultural and political history, European philosophy, in spite of its claims of universality, clearly lacks satisfactory approaches to issues related to post/neo/colonial realities. With its interdisciplinary focus, this book will be an important resource for scholars and students in Latin American studies, comparative literature, world literature, and philosophy.

Las investigaciones que componen este libro suponen un acercamiento a las diferentes facetas del filósofo Friedrich Nietzsche, que recogen tanto su labor filosófica como artística en sus manifestaciones poética y musical. Por una parte, desde su conocida caracterización como Dichterphilosoph, los trabajos aquí reunidos abordan la relación entre filosofía y poesía en la obra de Nietzsche, los desafíos que presenta la traducción de su obra poética al español, así como su influencia o recepción, especialmente entre artistas y eruditos españoles de principios del siglo XX. Por otra, desde la compresión de su faceta poética, integradora de la riqueza del gesto en la escritura, encontramos aportaciones que estudian el ritmo, la cadencia, la musicalidad y la danza como expresiones textuales del cuerpo, verdadero centro gravitacional del pensamiento nietzscheano.De este modo, hallamos en el presente volumen una mirada interdisciplinar, consecuencia de la estrecha colaboración entre filósofos, filólogos y representantes del mundo artístico de la expresión corporal. Así se cumple con lo que el filósofo siempre exigía y expresó en un conocido fragmento póstumo de 1881 sobre la filosofía de la indiferencia: hay que establecer el mundo desde múltiples ojos, aus vielen Augen die Welt setzen, lo que apunta, en última instancia, a la fusión entre ciencia (filosófica) y arte (poética).

“The Church is called to be the house of the Father, with doors always wide open.” - Pope Francis, The Joy of the Gospel As the Church in the United States becomes increasingly Hispanic, it is important to ask: how are Catholic educational structures, particularly our schools, serving the next generation of U.S. Catholics who are largely Hispanic? In this groundbreaking study, Boston College embarked on an effort to name the realities, challenges and possibilities in Catholic schools as they adjust to cultural changes and new demographics. The National Survey of Catholic Schools Serving Hispanic Families provides reliable and actionable data that will help strengthen and prepare Catholics schools so that they can continue to serve as vibrant instruments of the Church's evangelization mission. Written by leading researchers Dr. Hosffman Ospino and Dr. Patricia Weitzel-O'Neill, this study explores:Changing demographics among 21st-century CatholicsCurrent practices in U.S. Catholic schools related to serving Hispanic families Timely Catholic school enrollment data with a systematic analysis of Hispanic enrollment numbersPractical ideas to help Catholic schools welcome and integrate Hispanic students and families

This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of “lyric” and “state” as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for their work and how poems come to speak to us about politics. Drawing on concepts from contemporary literary theory, this striking study combines textual analysis with historical research to shed light on the ways in which new modes of circulation help to shape poetry today.

En esta obra se propone al lector un viaje de ida y vuelta de la Lingüística a la Traductología en la comprensión de los fenómenos de variación. La argumentación de la primera parte se basa en las siguientes cuestiones: ¿qué es la variación? y ¿por qué el traductor necesita al variacionista? La segunda parte pretende responder a las cuestiones siguientes: ¿qué importancia tiene la variación para el traductor? y ¿en qué sentido son distintas la percepción que el lingüista y el traductor o traductólogo tienen de la variación? En la tercera parte, por último, se realiza un análisis de casos prácticos de traducción de la variación en distintos ámbitos de actuación (biosanitario, literario, humanístico, audiovisual y jurídico) que concluye con una propuesta de conceptualización traductológica.

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