The magazine of contemporary thought “Pasajes”, edited by the UV, dedicates a monograph to the First World War, in the centenary of a conflagration which inaugurated a self-destructive catastrophic cycle in Europe. The historian Pedro Ruiz Torres, director of the magazine, draws a panoramic of the causes and consequences of the conflict, and revises the most relevant and recent historiographical contributions.
Maximiliano Fuentes addresses the issue of the attitudes towards the war of the Spanish intellectuals. Antoine Prost y Thomas Wieder analyse, in both articles, the ways to commemorate the event and the genesis of the given event. From a mature and democratic society that has overcome the traumas of the past, ¿what is the most appropriate way to commemorate such a tragic event which confronted countries which are friends today and are integrated in supranational structures in common like the EU?
Apart from other contributions, Thierry Hardier y J- F. Jagielski address the issue of the disappeared people in the battles, soldiers whose corpses were not recuperated, with tragic circumstances in the personal and familiar sphere, but it had also repercussion in the collective imagery. Likewise, a section of texts and documents is included, with an article never before published in Spanish by Thomas Mann “Reflexiones en la guerra” (In nglish, Reflections in the War) in 1941, as well as the pacifist manifest boasted by Albert Einstein and the exchange in the pages of the magazine “Journal des Economistes” (Journal of the Economists), where colleagues who had collaborated together before, time later they were dialectically confronted, a testimony of the deep upheaval which gave place to a battle which would only be the tragic prologue of an era of devastation, an era which would be followed by localized conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War and the Holocaust.
This monographic aims to show the conditions and derivations of 1914 and it contributes in this sense very valorous materials.
Moreover, the summary includes other articles, like those written by Nicolás Sánchez Durá about “Wittgenstein towanrds war and peace” and by Claus Offe about “the post-democracy of the era of the global financial capitalism”, as well as a wide section of reviews by David G. Pérez, J. L. Moreno Pestaña, Teresa López, Dolores Sánchez y Anacleto Ferrer.
Last update: 18 de april de 2014 07:00.
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