January 2009

Jesús Leticia Mendoza PérezPages 133-155DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096125 ABSTRACT This article is part of a wider investigation about the married woman representation in three of the stories included in Family Album (Álbum de familia) of Rosario Castellanos, which have the same characteristics: the author, the narrator and the main character are women. The purpose of this work […]

Frederic WillPages 156-168DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096126 ABSTRACT “Die Tat” concerns the effort to recapture a particular memory. In searching to recover that memory trace the writer discovers that the memory datum itself diffuses and breaks up into the present remembering action of the one who remembers. The essay anatomizes that process of diffusion, and tries to come

Marius SidoriucPages 169-189DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096127 ABSTRACT In the following pages I attempted to elaborate, in situ, on the conceptual reshapings realized by the concept of ruin and the ruin of concept starting from the question of the legitimacy of their construction. Ruins have an aesthetic, moral, political and religious power supervened on account of what historical,

Irina FrasinPages 193-202DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096128 ABSTRACT Under Alexander the Great the Greeks conquered Asia. This extraordinary undertaking was made possible, beside the military achievement, by the Greek thought and philosophy. The belief in the superiority of the Greek over the barbarian and freedom of the first and slavery of the second rendered the conquest and domination

Radu Vasile ChialdaPages 203-208DOI: 10.5840/cultura20096129 ABSTRACT Starting from the cyclic principle in the process of a society’s development, invoking „the end of history” that Hegel mentions, adding the paradoxical principle of Huntington’s civilizations, of a unity in diversity, through which we can have a clear and universal image of the conflicts, as actions generated by