Search Results: Titles starting with L from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Preface by Francois de Menthon. Volume is bound in original printed wrappers. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 110 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.25", is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. 395 pages.
"La guerre de deux France met face à face, depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, deux communautés, celle de citoyens, revée par la Révolution française ou la Troisième République, et celle des croyants, unifiée par l'Eglise. Choc frontal majeur, d'autant plus que la mobilisation nationaliste cherche sans cesse, et souvent avec succès, à se faire le porteparole d'un monde catholique qui se sent manacé dans ses valeurs identitaires par une République tournée vers le rationalisme et l'universalisme. Au cri de "La France aux Français!", les nationalistes dénoncent en un même mouvement tant cette République considerée comme étrangère à l'âme française que ses alliés de toujours que sont à ses yeux les protestants, les juifs, les franc-maçons et les "métèques" de toutes sortes, y compris, de nos jours, les musulmans. Du temps des ligues au mouvement… Read More

Large-format volume, measuring approximately 8.5" x 11", is bound in original stiff wrappers. Book is in fine condition. Interior is clean and bright. Profusely illustrated. 40 unnumbered pages.

Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 10.25" x 12.5", is bound in pictorial covers. Book shows moderate shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. 320 pages. This work offers a lavishly illustrated history of La Panaderia, a Mexico City gallery of contemporary art, with texts by the editors, Carlo McCormick, Guillermo Fadanelli, Eduardo Abaroa, and an interview with Mexican artist and writer Miguel Calderón ("the enfant terrible of contemporary art in Mexico" according to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) . The largest part of this volume is devoted to an accounting of exhibitions and events, with two texts by Itala Schmelz ("Los inicios rebeldes" & "Transfiguración"). A section entitled "Fun for the Whole Family" provides information on openings, concerts and residency at La Panadería. A comprehensive chronology and index appear at rear of volume. Bilingual in Spanish and English.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 126 pages.Albert Soboul (1914-1982) was a historian of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. A professor at the Sorbonne, he was Chair of the History of the French Revolution and author of numerous influential works of history and historical interpretation. In his lifetime, he was internationally recognized as the foremost French authority on the Revolutionary era.

Acta Salmanticensia, Historia de la Universidad, 21. Volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.5", is bound in original printed wrappers. Top of front spine edge is lightly bumped. Book is in otherwise fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. Numerous b&w photographic illustrations and several fold-out plates. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear. 236 pages.A history of the art, architecture and traditions of the oldest university in the Hispanic world and the third oldest in Europe.

Colección Mínima Trotta. Prologue by Jesús Moreno Sanz. Softcover volume, with French flaps, measures approximately 4.75" x 8", and exhibits very light shelfwear, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. 102 pages.
"En esta obra se puede observar de una forma muy precisa una de las claves del pensamiento de Zambrano: su singular saber sobre el alma renovador de los otros grandes temas zambrianos: el pitagorismo, el platonismo, el gnosticismo y el más radical cristianismo confrontándose con los severes problemas suscitados por los vitalismos, la fenomenología, el existencialismo y diversas corrientes de la antropología contemporánea."

Third edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 4.75" x 8", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 166 pages.The significance of local politics, neighborhood institutions, candidacies directly formed and controlled by citizens are elements explored here under the heading of "municipalismo."

Lecturas mexicanas, 91. Translation by Mariana Frenk. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 8.25", shows moderate shelfwear, with small tears at foot of spine and mild wear at edges. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. 89 pages plus 22 unnumbered leaves of plates."Excellent essay on the universal idea of death, in general, and the concept that the ancient Mexicans had about it. The work includes detailed analyses of the myth of Tezcatlipoca, the idea of immortality among indigenous Mesoamericans and the theme of death in European secular painting."

Latin America, Interdisciplinary Studies, Vol. 37. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is new. Color and b&w textual illustrations. xii/229 pages.
Discursive display of the poetic, audiovisual, critical and theatrical materials that Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist Enrique Lihn (1929-1988) developed from the late 1970s and throughout the entire decade of the 1980s in Chile, until his death in 1988."Enfrentando la censura y el autoritarismo de la época, durante los años 80 Enrique Lihn dejó a un lado su producción poética para desplegar un conjunto de "proyectos locos", según la acertada definición de Christopher Travis, dando cuenta con ello de una radicalidad única en el marco de la producción crítica e intelectual de esos años. "La casa que falta" aborda, por primera vez, el conjunto de esos materiales desde la concepción de un "acto social total", según la definición dada por Lévi-Strauss para los actos de lenguaje que exigen una interpretación plena.… Read More

Softcover volume (7" x 9.5") is new. 63 color illustrations. 162 pages.

Coleccion Biblioteca de Temas Libres, 50. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.75", is new. This work contains tables and facsimile illustrations. 222 pages.

Biblioteca Popular Curial, Nova etapa, 1. Second edition. Prologue by Jordi Castellanos. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 7.25", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 156 pages.Collection of essays by Catalan writer Lluis Ferran de Pol (1911-1995), who spent part of his formative years as an exile in Mexico, that became a key element of reflection in his writing.

Coleccion Tamesis Serie B. - Textos, VIII. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.5", is bound in original printed wrappers with folds. Book shows mildexternal wear. Binding is sound. Light foxing is visible onblank preliminary pages, final blank page and on laid-inerrata slip. Pages are clean and without markings. lxi/270 pages."The Comedia Thebaida" is a neglected work. It is consideredon of the many so-called imitations of "La Celestina" whichwere written in Spain after the appearance of the Rojas'masterpiece (1499).This volume transcribes two early versionsof the text, and contains notes on the localization of theaction, along with an assessment. It provides a basis fromwhich to assess the literary value and historical importanceof the "Comedia Thebaida".

Cuadernos de Anuario Filosófico, Serie de Filosofía Española, No. 11. Issue inscribed by author to Cornell Hispanist Ciriaco Morón Arroyo. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 68 pages.Inscription appears on title page."José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) desarrolló una teoria del cuerpo humano, estrechamente vinculada a la de Max Scheler, aunque superior en amplitud y riqueza de matices. Exige el examen del cuerpo humano desde múltiples puntos de vista, y el perspectivismo matiza y enriquece sus meditaciones sobre el cuerpo desde 1911 hasta 1950. Ortega profetizó una "gigante reivindicación" del cuerpo humano en Occidente del siglo XX, y contribuyó a iniciar la filosofía actual de la corporalidad en España".

Critical edition. Softcover volume shows very light shelfwear. Work is illustrated with b&w photos. 247 pages.

Antique volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in half red leather and marbled paper-covered boards, with stamped gilt lettering and ornamental designs to spine. Book shows moderate external wear, with mild rubbing and scuffing at edges. Binding is firm. Traces of removal of attachments appear on endpapers. Very small tear is visible in upper outside corner of half title page. Pages are clean and without markings. 158 pages.This volume presents French-language document shedding light on the history of the Second Empire and its intervention in Mexico. Jean-Baptiste Jecker (1812-1871) was a Swiss banker who was active in Meixco during the 1850s. The debt acquired by the Mexican governments of that time through his bank were used as a justification for the French intervention in Mexico that culminated in the ephemeral imperial regime of Maximilian of Habsburg.

Author-signed first edition. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.75" x 8.75", displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. 117 pages.Inscription on first blank preliminary page reads "A Daniel Eisenberg, / afectuosamente / Joaquín Gimeno". Hispanist Daniel Eisenberg. Eisenberg was the founder, editor, and sometime typesetter of the Journal of Hispanic Philology (1976-1992), and editor of the journal, Cervantes, of the Cervantes Society of America (2000-2007).

Estudios de literatura y pensamiento hispánicos, 4. Softcover volume, with flaps, measures approximately 5.5" x 8.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 327 pages.Study of religious conflicts in Spain in the late 19th century, in the aftermath of the Bourbon Restoration, and, within that context, of the significance of "La historia de heterodoxos españoles" (1880-1886), the work of Spanish scholar and historian Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo (1856-1912).

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 6.75", displays light shelfwear. with name stamped to bottom edge of text block and bottom edge of title page. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. Text is in Spanish. 474 pages.