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José Andrés Sánchez Exeni, narrador boliviano, nos entrega en ¡Taxi!, "otra historia de taxista" que se integra en nuestro imaginario colectivo a esas otras historias de taxistas, provenientes de la literatura, la música y el cine... Pero esta "otra historia de taxista" no es una historia más. Es una "Historia con hache mayúscula", con una voz peculiar y única. Está narrada con la maestría de esos escritores que te atrapan en los encantamientos de personajes construidos a partir de esos otros personajes que ya conocemos: travestis que se prostituyen, un viejo que en medio de la noche se pasea con sus "exquisiteces" de gentleman en busca de servicios sexuales... Y habitándolo todo, a la vez que es habitada: La Ciudad, esa ciudad sin nombre que es ella misma y todas las ciudades. Esa urbe dicotómica, de doble cara y con doble vida. De cara y vida diurna, de cara y vida nocturna; que reconocemos como boliviana y, a la vez, como esa otra ciudad en la cual cada uno de nosotros estamos "leyendo esta historia", haciendo resonar con nuestras vivencias y fantasías, lo que este taxista-protagonista, conocido y enigmático, a la vez, nos devela desde dentro de sí mismo, y desde fuera: la fotografía de la ciudad nocturna del mundo y de esos seres que habitan su oscuridad, sus destellos y –por qué no–, sus pequeños espacios de esperanza. ¡Taxi!, de José Andrés Sánchez Exeni, es un ejemplo de ese fenómeno cultural que está destellando en la literatura latinoamericana: la glocalización, pues mezcla, y convierte en trascendente "el relato que nos hace", en ese espacio dentro de nosotros, en el cual resuenan, se amalgaman e hibridan, la multitud de historias similares, reales y ficticias, que conocemos. Aquí y allá, "aquillá", pues ¡Taxi! está ocurriendo aquí, y a la vez, en cualquier lugar.

This book examines the human ability to participate in moments of joint feeling. It presents an answer to the question concerning the nature of our faculty to share in what might be called episodes of collective affective intentionality. The proposal develops the claim that our capacity to participate in such episodes is grounded in an ability central to our human condition: our capacity to care with one another about certain things. The author provides a phenomenologically adequate account of collective affective intentionality that takes seriously the idea that feelings are at the core of our emotional relation to the world. He details a form of group emotional orientation that relies on the fact that the participating individuals have come to share a number of concerns. Readers will learn that at the heart of a collective affective intentional episode, one does not merely find a set of shared concerns, but also a particular mode of caring. In the end, the argument presented in this monograph makes plausible the idea that the emotions through which humans participate in moments of affective intentional community express our nature. In addition, it shows that the debate on collective affective intentionality also permits us to better understand the relationship between two conflicting philosophical pictures of ourselves: the idea that we are essentially social beings and the claim that we are creatures for whom our personal existence is an issue. Thus, aiming at an elucidation of the nature of our ability to feel together, the book offers a detailed account of what it is to situationally express our human nature by caring about something in a properly joint manner.

In A History of Spanish Institutions the evolution of Spanish institutions from the first human settlements on the Peninsula to the present day is offered in a succinct and appropriately contextualised manner. To this end, each chapter combines a description of the historical context of a period with the description of its most characteristic institutions. These are complemented by an explanation of the main “symbols” of Spain and their history. The importance of institutions and their historical evolution as a determining factor in economic and socio-political development has been proved by numerous studies. Hence, the knowledge of the main national institutions from a historical, legal and economic perspective is essential for those who wish to operate in the Spanish market. The modular structure of the handbook, together with the differentiated presentation of the content according to its level of relevance,will allow the readers to adapt and combine the texts that make up this book according to their specific needs and interests, thus optimising the outcome of their study. This revised and expanded second edition has added a selection of empirical works to the introductory chapter, reflects the latest historiographical developments, updates the bibliography, includes new examples of symbols, and expands on the main historical milestones and their institutional impact up to the time of going to press. Table of Contents Foreword to the second edition.- Foreword to the first edition.- Preliminary note: On the structure and use of this handbook.- Introduction: Why institutions (and their history) matter.- Institutions of the origins of the historic age in Iberia (from the first human settlements on the Peninsula to the Celtiberian culture.- Phoenician, Greek and Roman institutions in Spain.- Institutions of Visigothic Spain.- Interlude: Muslim Spain and its institutions.- Institutions of Christian Medieval Spain.- Institutions of the Spanish Empire I: The major Habsburgs.- Institutions of the Spanish Empire II: The minor Habsburgs and the early Bourbons.- The long road to the Constitution I: Institutions and their development from 1808 to 1869.- The long road to the Constitution II: Institutions and their development from 1876 to 1936.- Institutions of Francoist Spain.- The Constitutional System of 1978.- Anex. The long road of Spanish Constitutionalism.- General references.

The Book, Behind the Dune is a long unitary poem about the birth of a poetic consciousness and its development in a world marked by the discovery of beauty, eroticism and the reality of evil. Already translated into French, Italian, Czech, German and Arabic, the book is presented here for the first time in English.

Son nueve cartas, dos tarjetas y tres tarjetas postales de Andrés Sánchez Robayna y dos cartas de Severo Sarduy, cuyo contenido trata sobre la producción literaria de ambos escritores, y el envío de artículos y notas sobre sus obras Incluye además, fotocopias de los artículos mecanografiados de Andrés Sánchez "Cinco paneles para Severo Sarduy" (h. 2-10) y "Devoción e irrisión" (h. 29-30); los poemas autógrafos de Andrés Sánchez «Sesión: hialina», "El vaso no es una medida / sino su estancia solamente" (h. 13) y la décima inédita "Gracias, Severo, por esa / canasta blanca de fruta" (h. 24); y fotocopia del texto mecanografiado de Severo Sarduy "Fuego blanco" (h. 36-38).