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This essay seeks to establish a broader conceptual framework for studying the historical development of Latin American science fiction and its recent turn--in a genre usually focused on other times and worlds--to references to the past and present of Latin American history and culture. Valuable current studies of Latin American science fiction have been devoted primarily to the history of the genre itself and to tropes that have recurred in certain periods of the development of Latin American science fiction, such as cyborgs, androids, and zombies. Few have been devoted to the issues and forces at play in the current rise not only of science fiction in Latin America but of a recognizably Latin American form of science fiction. Through readings focused on the role of history and time in representative Latin American science fictional narratives of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, from the Argentine Juana Manuela Gorriti and the Chilean Jorge Baradit to the Cuban Yoss, the pervasiveness of historicity, the view of indigenous knowledge as proto science (rather than superstition), and a penchant towards dystopias, horror, and the Gothic, are considered as possible defining traits of Latin American science fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout its evolution, every theory usually faces certain challenges that prove its vitality. The discourse of rights, as a theoretical conception aimed at its explanation and foundation, is not exempt from the permanent task aimed at responding to these challenges. This essay analyzes the risks that are considered most decisive and pressing for the discourse of rights. To this end, three current challenges to the theory of rights are studied and three responses to them are suggested. Eleaticism, particularism and posthumanism are considered the main challenges facing reflection on rights today. The response to these attitudes is constituted by historicism, universalism and humanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a review of Encarnación Castro Páez's book on geo-ethnographic literature related to Iberia/Hispania from its beginnings to Pliny. The book proposes an approach detached from essentialist historicism and highlights the need to analyze the literary context of the descriptions of Iberia/Hispania in ancient literature. The study addresses the different perspectives and opinions present in ancient sources, as well as the processes of change in the geographical representation of the Iberian Peninsula. The book is divided into five chapters that offer a diachronic synthesis of ancient geographical thought up to Strabo, and specifically focus on the case of the Iberian Peninsula. [Extracted from the article]

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The article analyzes Marx's contribution to historical and dialectical materialism, based on works such as the "Paris Manuscripts," "Capital," and the "Manifesto of the Communist Party." It highlights the importance of political practice and scientific analysis in Marxism, as well as the relationship between ideology and materialism in Marx's work. The theory of revolution by Marx is discussed, as well as the importance of distinguishing between necessity and possibility in the transition from capitalism to another mode of production. The article concludes by emphasizing the importance of change in practice rather than in absolute terms. [Extracted from the article]

Various meanings or levels of situated reason are distinguished: "Situated reason" [SR] presupposes a logos or reason, which is given in a particular historical and cultural sphere, i.e. it is conceived as temporal and worldly. The corresponding method is hermeneutic or interpretative, concerning the understanding of singularities. It is in the sphere of language and communication where it is proper to speak of reason or logos, which also mean word. SR It is associated with plurality, secularization and historicism; it is alien to monism in its various expressions: monotheism, monolinguals, monarchy, etc. It is a kind of post metaphysical rationality, distinct and alien to absolute knowledge. It means a decline (end?) of the primacy of the subject and of theory: situated reason entails a crisis of logo-centrism and a decentralization of truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Classical philosophy kept open the question about the possibility of identifying universal truths that are independent of the historical period in which the philosopher is working. After the antimetaphysical turn, current sciences (and nursing) disregard this question. In the recent scientific nursing literature, there has been a growing increase in citations of thinkers such as Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. Given the subtlety of some of their philosophical approaches, it is possible that nursing thinking is incorporating the premises of these authors without subjecting them to a rigorous critique. One of the most relevant of these theses is that of historicism, which can be summed up as the denial of the possibility of attaining knowledge that transcends the cultural limitations of any specific historical period. Although this question is of undoubted epistemological relevance to nursing knowledge, it has been addressed by few researchers in the field of nursing. The works of Leo Strauss contain critical reflections on the historicism of Heidegger and Gadamer. The reading of these works could allow nursing researchers to understand the historicist thesis in greater detail and to be able to analyse what influence this thesis is having on nursing thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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There is traditionally a special concern about the interpretative act, its scope and significance, with regard to the expression and dissemination of a musical heritage that is genetically out of step with the present, which nevertheless seems to possess an almost inexhaustible cultural wealth. This problematises the figure of the performer and his function as mediator between the composer and the listener, between a past epoch and the present, which entails a temporal and historical factor that must therefore imply an active, reflexive and conscious relationship between the past and the present. How much of eternity there is in the old, how the interpretative fact should be approached in order to optimally rescue from the musical historic heritage that which, being perhaps timeless, is still culturally enriching for today's spectacularised globalised society? But how can we escape the danger of becoming mere "museum interpreters"? In other words: how to bridge this historical gulf and communicate a message from the past in a contemporary, valuable and interesting way without betraying the communicative intent of the original composition? The intensive and, above all, analytical and reflexive use of new technological resources applied to the treatment of sound could be an optimal way to achieve this objective on the basis of an actualist hermeneutic approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research article presents the criticisms that intellectual history, in its version of history of political languages, makes to the history of ideas. The background of both historiographies is presented and it analyzes how the criticism made by the intellectual history incurs in theoretical simplifications, where the history of ideas is reduced to the capture of the peculiarity and originality of ideas in Latin America, neglecting its political purposes, its commitment to the knowledge of the region and its commitment to decolonization and emancipation. It is argued that the type of analysis carried out by intellectual history questions the philosophical character and depoliticizes the history of ideas. It is concluded that, although the approach to the history of political languages allows the analysis of an interesting set of problems, it is not a matter of one historiographic model being replaced by another, but of the coexistence of epistemic and methodological pluralism. The methodology used for the research is textual hermeneutics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article proposes to review the critique of historicism and the notion of progress in On the concept of history by Walter Benjamin (1940), to put it in relation to Friedrich Nietzsche's theses on history. Indeed, in the so-called second untimely consideration, On the usefulness and harm of history for life (1874), he proposes to think about history from a conception contrary to scientism that is, in some way, represented with the objectivity promoted by authors like Leopold von Ranke. In this sense, a conceptual relationship could be established between Benjamin and Nietzsche in order to propose that their perspectives constitute complementary views of history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article exposes how Colombian constitutional historicism or traditionalism has been marked by hyper-presidentialism. Although the 1991 Constitution imposed a moderate presidentialism as an alternative to the historicism, hyper-presidentialism returned through constitutional reforms and traditional political practices, especially in the Uribe [2002-2010] and Santos [2010-2018] government mandates. Such accumulation of power in President Santos, organized by several previous governments, allowed him to advance a peace process with the FARC guerrilla against many sectors that have rejected a negotiated solution to the armed conflict. Nevertheless, this paper asks if it is worth betting on accumulating so much power in one person, even though in this case served laudable ends from a pacifist perspective, given that the risks of hyper-presidentialism are very elevated for a republican democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is a criticism review of the New Historical Novel category proposed by Seymour Menton in 1993. It is suggested that the implied reading frame in this category would excessively show the deconstructive operations of this novels, limiting their estetic and criticism potential to their capacty of dismantle the official discourse of historicism. It is proposed, therefore, extend its potential meanings, including their ability to rework the past, multiplying it, showing as always capable of being reinvented and thus revitalizing its own historicity. To do this, it is resorted to historical novel theory of Lukács and to the characterization of the live of the signs in the novels that proposed by authors such as Noé Jitrik, Antonio Candido and Julia Kristeva. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyzes the connection of the modern writing of history with the domination of the conqueror, the sovereignty imposed by war and the concealment of this connection. At the same time, this paper postulates that the shift of other forms of relation with time towards «culture» constitutes the double episteme of this original formula of domination. The test is structured in four parts: 1. A study of the relationship between writing and conquest; 2. A work on the link between the writing of history and the theory of sovereignty, between the writing of history and colonialism; 3. A study of the procedures that relegated in culture the non-linear forms of relationship with time; 4. An approach of the mechanisms of historicism which prevent the thought of anachronism, asynchrony or repetition as subordinate historical logics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A politics of historicism determines legal discourse to build a linear narrative of the time in which events happen. This fact produces a chronological view that influences the life of affected people who are under this discourse. Therefore, this article explains how this process takes place in order to evidence the tension between the concept of nation that is embodied in the Political Constitution of Colombia (1991) and, the notion of indigenous people identity that is promoted by multicultural laws. The analysis is based on the most relevant jurisprudential pieces of the Constitutional Court of Colombia towards the problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We argue that contemporary relativism about truth should not be confused with classical skepticism. Using texts of Isaiah Berlin, Raymond Aron and Leo Strauss, we attempt to show that contemporary relativism is a recent phenomenon and that it rests on much stronger hypothetical claims than mere skepticism. The appeal of both positions stems from their apparent opposition to the dogmatisms of the past, but relativism can (and in our opinion, should) be refuted without calling for a contradiction of terms. We suggest that its assumptions are in fact much weaker than is currently believed, and that we should be disturbed by some of his most extreme consequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this introductory paper is to contextualise, via a historiographical reflection, the nine papers selected for this special edition of Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, which focuses on "using past international cooperation to rethink development", prioritising "alternative critical approaches". As the historical perspective is missing from most publications in this shared field of Development Studies and International Relations, this introduction presents original works - for their empirical, comparative and/or theoretical contribution - in contrast to the prevailing interpretative frameworks (interdependentist from International Relations, and problem-solving from Development Studies), giving a voice to authors and problems from the countries of the South both as aid recipients and as cooperation providers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]