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Michel Foucault - Obras Completas (Descargar) Hoy en Laberintos del Tiempo, les traigo las Obras completas de Michael Foucault.

Michel Foucault - Obras Completas (Descargar)

Poitiers, Francia, 1926-París, 1984) Filósofo francés. Estudió filosofía en la École Normale Supérieure de París y, ejerció la docencia en las universidades de Clermont-Ferrand y Vincennes, tras lo cual entró en el Collège de France (1970). Influido por Nietzsche, Heidegger y Freud, en su ensayo titulado Las palabras y las cosas (1966) desarrolló una importante crítica al concepto de progreso de la cultura, al considerar que el discurso de cada época se articula alrededor de un «paradigma» determinado, y que por tanto resulta incomparable con el discurso de las demás. De ahí que, en el último volumen de su Historia de la sexualidad, titulado La preocupación de sí mismo (1984), defendiese una ética individual que permitiera a cada persona desarrollar, en la medida de lo posible, sus propios códigos de conducta. Síguenos en las redes sociales si quieren estar actualizados con nuestras publicaciones! Encyclopedia Mythica: mythology, folklore, and religion.

40,000 Artworks from 250 Museums, Now Viewable for Free at the Redesigned Google Art Project. Home. 10 Good Sites & Apps for Learning a New Language. Last summer I took a short trip to Iceland.

10 Good Sites & Apps for Learning a New Language

Before I went I tried to learn a couple of phrases (I wasn't terribly successful, my mouth just wouldn't make some of the sounds). This summer I'm taking a short trip to Costa Rica so I'm brushing-up on my Spanish vocabulary before I go. PEN World Voices Festival. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Studies for Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Frontal View, Male Nude Unsheathing a Sword, and the Movements of Water (recto); Study for Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Rear View (verso), 1506–8 Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519) Pen and brown ink, charcoal or soft black chalk (recto), charcoal or soft black chalk (verso); 5 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. (13.7 x 14 cm) Purchase, Florence B.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

Selden Bequest and Rogers Fund, and Promised Gift of Leon D. and Debra R. Black, 2000 (2000.328a,b) Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is one of the most intriguing personalities in the history of Western art. Trained in Florence as a painter and sculptor in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio (1435–1488), Leonardo is also celebrated for his scientific contributions. Leonardo's curiosity and insatiable hunger for knowledge never left him.

Shelf Awareness. The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do. Writing is a muscle.

The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do.

Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of your words as reps, your paragraphs as sets, your pages as daily workouts. Think of your laptop as a machine like the one at the gym where you open and close your inner thighs in front of everyone, exposing both your insecurities and your genitals. Because that is what writing is all about. Procrastination is an alluring siren taunting you to google the country where Balki from Perfect Strangers was from, and to arrange sticky notes on your dog in the shape of hilarious dog shorts. The blank white page. Kids Book Review: Review: Duck, Death and the Tulip. Death in a plaid smock can be a somewhat confronting image, most probably most especially for adults, not necessarily for children.

Kids Book Review: Review: Duck, Death and the Tulip

The smallest of children have a padded concept of death and its meaning, and older children probably also lack a full grasp on its finality. The Morning News.

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Announcing Our 10th Annual Photo Contest Finalists. Manhattan of the Mind - Slide Show. “I remember standing at the top of Manhattan and being terrified,” says Becky Cooper, the 25-year-old New York native behind “Map Your Memories,” a project she started in 2009.

Manhattan of the Mind - Slide Show

Cooper hand-printed hundreds of blank maps of Manhattan, each self-addressed and stamped so they could be mailed back to her. Then she and a friend trekked from Marble Hill — the very top of the borough — down to its southernmost point, handing the maps out to strangers with one simple instruction: fill it in with whatever best captures your experience of the city. Reflexiones Marginales. Marriage of art and technology dazzles in a unique new gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art. CELVELAND - Walk into Gallery One, literally the first gallery inside the Cleveland Museum of Art's entrance, and you'll know immediately that you're about to have a very different museum experience.

Marriage of art and technology dazzles in a unique new gallery at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Surrounded by popular works from the museum's collection are multiple interactive screens that will take you through a variety of experiences: recreate a masterwork, strike a pose that mimics an ancient sculpture, make a face on a photo screen and find its mirror image in a work of art. You can e-mail your images or post to social media. Caroline Goeser is the Director of Interpretation and Education at the museum, and among dozens of staff members who were involved in developing the project. "There's been a notion that art museums are about looking, meditating alone. We want people to have a much fuller experience. Using the museum's new app for iPad called ArtLens, visitors can scan art and immediately get more information about it.

"That was a major goal,"Goeser said. FORA.tv - Videos from the World's Best Conferences and Events. Aeon Magazine – the digital magazine of ideas and culture. NPR Fresh Air. Help finalize the next version of The Conversation Prism.

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Harvard Voices by Harvard University. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. View of Toledo. Internet History Sourcebooks. Update Information 2006: In 2006 the Internet Medieval Sourcebooks and associated sourcebooks are undergoing a major overhaul to remove bad links and add more documents. 1. This project is both very large and fairly old in Internet terms. At the time it was instigated (1996), it was not clear that web sites [and the documents made available there] would often turn out to be transient. As a result there is a process called "link rot" - which means that a "broken link" is a result of someone having taken down a web page.

In some cases some websites have simply reorganized sub-directories without creating forwarding links. 2. 3. The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is organized as three main index pages, with a number of supplementary documents. INTRODUCTION: MEDIEVAL SOURCES ON THE INTERNET Historians teaching medieval history surveys almost always want to combine a textbook, a sourcebook, and additional readings. DOCUMENT SIZE: The size of documents for teaching purposes is an issue. History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places. Curiosity. Marca México. WeKnowMemes - Meme Generator. Primitive Culture-Tylor, Edward Burnett vol 1. 500 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns & More. Watch 4,000+ movies free online.

500 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns & More

Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of our greatest actors, actresses and directors. The collection is divided into the following categories: Comedy & Drama; Film Noir, Horror & Hitchcock; Westerns (many with John Wayne); Martial Arts Movies; Silent Films; Documentaries, and Animation. Free Comedy & Dramas 125 Korean Feature Films – Free – The Korean Film Archive has put on YouTube over 100 Korean feature films, including Im Kwon-taek’s Sopyonje and Hong Sangsoo’s The Day the Pig Fell Into a Well. A bonanza for fans of Korean film.70 Movies in HD from Famed Russian Studio Mosfilm – Free – Includes films by Tarkovsky, Eisenstein and Kurosawa. Collective:unconscious – Free – Five indie filmmakers adapt each other’s dreams for the screen. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Why We're Wired for Science and How Originality Differs in Science and Art. Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills.

Concerts from the Library of Congress, 2009-2010. ‘The Ballad of the Skeletons’: Allen Ginsberg’s 1996 Collaboration with Philip Glass and Paul McCartney. Allen Ginsberg was an unlikely MTV star.

‘The Ballad of the Skeletons’: Allen Ginsberg’s 1996 Collaboration with Philip Glass and Paul McCartney

In late 1996 the Beat poet was 70 years old and in declining health.