Vida Y Obra De Ramon Lull Filosofia Y Mistica

La ingeniería ha transformado el mundo durante siglos, por iniciativa de la sociedad o con su anuencia tácita. Sus creaciones han sido la clave para resolver innumerables problemas y cubrir múltiples necesidades de la humanidad, pero sus obras también suelen tener repercusiones negativas -casi siempre diferidas y a veces imprevistas- sobre el entorno natural y social. La obra está dirigida a los interesados en que esta creativa profesión continúe con el propósito de satisfacer nuestras necesidades y que las repercusiones negativas sean cada vez menores. En este sentido es que el autor busca contribuir a que los lectores dispongan de la información suficiente sobre cómo opera esta profesión.

"Llull es el mayor escritor catalán de todos los tiempos, quizá el único a quien convenga plenamente el calificativo de genio, ése que reservamos para las grandes ocasiones, no más de uno por lengua." Pere Gimferrer Ramon Llull, de quien 2016 marca el séptimo centenario de su muerte, fue escritor, filósofo, místico, misionero, teólogo autodidacta y viajero y aventurero incansable. Su obra, una de las más fecundas y polifacéticas de toda la Edad Media europea, fue escrita en latín, en catalán y en árabe. El libro de Domínguez Reboiras, uno de nuestros grandes expertos de la obra luliana, acerca al lector actual, con maestría y profundidad, a la vida y al pensamiento —tan azaroso, apasionado y apasionante el uno como la otra— del "gran filósofo de la diferencia", en acertada expresión de Vladimir Jankélévitch. Personaje excepcional, tanto por los avatares de su biografía como por la complejidad y ambición de su trabajo intelectual —no en vano deseaba escribir "el mejor libro del mundo", su Ars magna et generalis—, el mallorquín se nos muestra en estas páginas como un hombre de ideas fecundas, innovadoras y, asimismo, muchas de ellas cercanas al lector de hoy. Prueba de ello su insobornable celebración de la alegría de vivir, de la amistad y del amor, su acérrima defensa del diálogo entre religiones y del uso de la Razón para sustentar con fuerza imbatible la fe de los hombres en Dios.

Modern histories of medieval culture often assert without qualification that the oral exercise of public eloquence during the European Middle Ages was limited to preaching by the clergy. The classical art of rhetoric supposedly survived only as a written subject for study in the schools. During the past thirty years, however, knowledge of medieval rhetorical theory and practice has grown tremendously. Historians and philologians have devoted particular attention to the relationship between oral and written communication in medieval Europe. Their investigations are beginning to suggest -- not surprisingly -- that interest in eloquence was not confined to the schools or clergy. Secular officials arguing in princely courts or town halls, and laypeople seeking to develop their learning or piety also cultivated an interest in rhetoric. Given the paucity of testimony available, the New Rhetoric of the Mallorcan lay theologian and philosopher Ramon Llull (1232-1316) offers an exceptional witness to the non-academic and non-clerical concern for eloquence. His proposals for new Christian arts of communication are among the best evidence available for assessing the diffusion of rhetorical doctrines from the cloisters and schools into the courts, town halls, and private chapels of Western Europe around 1300. Growing interest in Llull's work and in medieval rhetoric have combined to produce this first published edition. The first part on order shows how Llull's entire program attempts to correlate ethical, metaphysical, and linguistic categories into a single system of Anselmian "rightness." The next section on beauty could almost form a complete art of preaching in itself, thanks to the brief compilations of sermon material that it includes. The broad range of discursive elements and techniques in which Llull seeks verbal beauty makes this section very eclectic in scope. Part three on knowledge attempts to explain the diffusion of right linguistic and rhetorical doctrine almost exclusively through the Divine Dignities and other categories of the Great Art. The final section on love consists of ten proverbs regarding loving speech, each explicated with an appropriate exemplum.

"Ramon Llull, el filósofo hispano de mayor renombre mundial, todavía no contaba con una biografía que explicara su vida y su pensamiento a un público general. En lenguaje desenfadado y directo, el autor aborda la biografía, los avatares históricos de una época densa y agitada: el maremágnum de la filosofía, de la teología, de las ciencias nacientes, de la política: Dios y el mundo, la mística y la sociología, la psicología (incluso patológica) y la metafísica; las disputas de los pensadores más diversos, el choque cultural y religioso del Occidente cristiano y el islam. Las cuestiones filosóficas, teológicas y místicas quedan al alcance de la mano y se presentan vivas, entramadas en una biografía tan rica en aventuras como la del gran mallorquín" (Juan Bautista Torelló).

As one of America’s most important missionaries, Junípero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California’s missions. It was for that work that he was canonized in 2015 by Pope Francis. Less well known, however, is the degree to which Junípero Serra embodied the social, religious and artistic currents that shaped Spain and Mexico across the 18th century. Further, Serra’s reception in American culture in the 19th and 20th centuries has often been obscured by the controversies surrounding his treatment of California’s Indians. This volume situates Serra in the larger Spanish and Mexican contexts within which he lived, learned, and came of age. Offering a rare glimpse into Serra’s life, these essays capture the full complexity of cultural trends and developments that paved the way for this powerful missionary to become not only California’s most polarizing historical figure but also North America’s first Spanish colonial saint.

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.