The 52 issue of ‘Pasajes’, which is co-ordinated by Nicolás Sánchez Durá, dedicates its dossier to ‘Violence, grief and breakdown of civilisation’

  • July 6th, 2017
 
52 Edició Revista Pasajes

The ‘Pasajes’ magazine, which is published by the Universitat de València, dedicates the dossier of the 52 issue to ‘Violence, grief and breakdown of civilisation’. The dossier, which is co-ordinated by Nicolás Sánchez Durá, professor of Metaphysics at the Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences, puts together the contributions of Lucía Martí Mengual, Robert Gerwath, Miquel Berga, Rafael Pérez Baquero and Enzo Traverso.

The volume includes a conversation between Enzo Traverso and Régis Meyran about the issue ‘Radical Islamism or islamofascism?’, the articles of Mathieu Viau-Courville and de Ricardo Tejada, as well as the reviews of Antonio Melero, Jorge Ramón Ros and Laura Replinger.

According to Nicolás Sánchez Durá, ‘it has been said that the hero of ‘Heart of Darkness’, written by J. Conrad, had listened to music of the 2th century Overture. Since the colonial domination until the multiform political and warlike violence that has characterised the past, our historic experience can be described as traumatic. A traumatic past that constantly returns, the grief for the breakdown of an ideal civilisation process, the sadness by the loss of a defeated hope on the horizon... It is a symptom that to think today about our history, more and more categories that were originally clinical are incorporated’.

The index of this issue and the complete text of all the previous issues can be consulted at http://www.uv.es/pasajes/