May 2018 Culture and Society
Read the articles selected in May 2018
El misterio del indoeuropeo
By Jean-Paul Demoule
Source: El País, 22 April
The research for the Indo-European cradle, which explains the affinity and similarity between distant idioms and civilizations appears to historians more and more as a Chimera, ideologically dangerous and misleading, not taking into account the continuous and frequent blending between human societies through millennia.
This revolution in our understanding of depression will be life transforming
By Edward Bullmore
Source: The Observer Domestic, 29 April
A genetic discovery sheds new light on depression, which depends on a complex combination of biological and environmental causes that are for everyone a continuous spectrum of risk, overcoming stigmatizing distinctions and a divisive question in the psychiatry with a scientific answer of wisdom.
The slavery story that took 87 years to be told
By Adam Lusher
Source: The Independent, 7 May
The story of the last living Afro-American slave, shipped in chains in the USA in 1859 thanks to the African involvement and the strong demand for slaves in America and Europa has been written in 1931 but only now has found a publisher willing to publish it.
Ermanno Olmi, artisan d’humanité
By Richard Heuzé & Marie-Noëlle Tranchant
Source: Le Figaro, 8 May
Poet of the memory, Ermanno Olmi has taken on the burden of the social themes of his time opening them to universal significances, though not forgetting the power relations that his Christian view seems to catch up with more accuracy and are the ground of every human tragedy.
Der Philosoph der Freiheit
By Bernard Schulz
Source: Der Tagesspiegel, 2 May
200 years after his birthdate, a series of studies on Karl Marx rediscovers the libertarian fundament of his theories, that inherit several categories as much from the history of the political thought as from the wisdom of satirical fables, affirming the individual’s value within the manufacture.
Art lovers to be given glimpse of visionary Spencer painting for the first time in 60 years
By Harriet Sherwood
Source: The Observer Domestic, 29 April
Sotheby’s will exhibit at an auction in June Punts by the River by Stanley Spencer, part of the series Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta, an important work which had been subtracted to the public view since it was bought in 1959 to a private collector.
“La ficción cuenta más verdad que las historias reales”
By Francesco Manetto & Camilo Rozo
Source: El País, 1 May
Viajes con una mapa en blanco, by the Colombian writer Juàn Gabriel Vàsquez rediscovers the literature as a mean to approach the reality, through a language with the same naturalness of the experience and opposed in its precision and complexity to the easy sentences declared by the politics and the social net.
The challenges of defining death
Source: The Economist, 3 May
The definition of death is no longer certain as in the past, but it is complicated by the technologies that allow maintaining the vital functions of a body. Establishing the moment, as long as it responds to deserving material interests and religious concerns has become a headache for every government.
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- Pubblicato il : 04/06/2018 Modificato il : 04/04/2019
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- Ermanno Olmi, artisan d'humanité pdf
- The slavery story that took 87 years to be told pdf
- A revolution in the understanding of depression pdf
- El misterio del indoeuropeo pdf
- La ficciòn cuenta màs verdad che las historias reales pdf
- Spencer painting to be viewed for the first time in 60 years
- Der Philosoph der Freiheit pdf