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  • Everyday Time: The Triumph of Each Day in Julieta Dobles’ Los pasos terrestres 

    Palacios Robles, María de los Ángeles (2014-01-30)
    The poems, The terrestrial steps, Julieta Dobles Izaguirre contains a poem that includes and reappraises the everyday aspects of existence. It includes the qualities of the time that print you the pace to the experience ...
  • The Aesthetic of Rest in the Representation of Azorín’s Small Provincial Towns 

    Cuvardic García, Dorde (2014-01-30)
    This article analyzes the aesthetic of rest and small philosophy in Azorín´s work, associated to the representation of the indolent, apathetic towns and cities. The eternal return, as seen from Nietzsche´s pessimistic ...
  • City and Poetry: The Stage and Language 

    Boccanera, Jorge (2014-01-30)
    The author explores the relation between city and poetry, regarding to contents of the urban landscape that inspire poetic creation. It specifically examines urban cultural forms, such as infrastructure, speech, customs, ...
  • The Gaze in Leopoldo Lugones’ “Los ojos de la reina”: A Fragmented Reading 

    Longan Phillips, Shirley (2014-01-30)
    “Los ojos de la reina” by Leopoldo Lugones deals with the strange death of Mr. Neale Skinner; all evidence leads toward Sha-it-Athor, The Lady of the Gaze, a beautiful Egyptian who is the reincarnation of Queen Hatshepsut. ...
  • The Drawing Model Collection of the National Academy of Fine Arts 

    Sánchez Zumbado, Jimena (2014-01-30)
    This paper describes the origin and usage of the graphic portion of the oldest collection that the University of Costa Rica owns: the Drawing Model Collection. Which was brought to the country as part of the teaching ...
  • Enlightenment Thought in Music 

    Rojas Zeledón, Ivette (2014-01-30)
    The Enlightenment thought of XVIII century about the reason, criticism, autonomy, progress and education, may be difficult to distinguish in the music of the time, however, we will find it in a new form of composition, in ...
  • University Autonomy: Notes for Discussion 

    Muñoz Varela, Luis (2014-01-30)
    This essay offers a brief reflection on the concept of university autonomy, focusing on addressing two critical issues: a) the implications for public university carries the emergence of a new conception of knowledge, ...
  • Notes for a Sketch on the History of Women 

    Fallas Arias, Teresa (2014-01-30)
    Before approaching the history of women the fact that it was written by men should be considered. It was filled with prejudice, stereotypes and reproduced an androcentric rhetoric which converted the sexual differences of ...
  • The Contemporary and the Crisis of Empirical Reality: Theoretical Confrontations 

    Rodríguez Jiménez, Leda (2014-01-30)
    This article plunges itself into de contemporary to examine its implications by exploring and confronting different theoretical and philosophical positions. Of whom or what are we contemporaneous to? What is the meaning ...
  • Democracy, Power and Minorities in Bertrand Russell 

    Carvajal Villaplana, Álvaro (2014-01-30)
    This article offers an analysis of democracy as taming of the power, according Bertrand Russell (Power, 1938). Defense of minorities is implied by this concept of democracy, and in this paper, that defense is amplified to ...
  • Evolutionary Epistemology and Plato’s Knowledge 

    Masís Iverson, Katherine (2014-01-30)
    This paper briefly compares evolutionary epistemology and knowledge according to Plato. First, Plato’s approach to knowledge as portrayed in his Theaetetus is described, followed by Nathalie Gontier’s characterization of ...
  • Time Lost in the Archives 

    Broncano, Fernando (2014-01-30)
    The author analyze the trend, determined by the evolution of contemporary technologies, towards the consolidation of a culture that privileges the novelty and immediacy above the heritage, and that therefore replaces ...