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This page is dedicated to the authors I like the most , academically and personally. Please feel free to mail me any comments.
Carlo Ginzburg - to establish links between traditions and mythical complexes lost in space and time, few have equalled this Italian scholar
Euclides da Cunha - the first and major interpreter of Brazilian identity and culture. Although I strongly disagree with many finer points in his major work, Os sertões, it is impossible to deny its importance and the value of Euclides' effort.
Mishima Yukio Cyber Museum - this page is dedicated to Yukio Mishima, whom I consider the best ficcional author in the post-war world. Flamboayant as his work appears, it requires a very fine understanding of the subtleties of his style, if he his not to be dismissed as "the fascist who killed himself for the sake of the Emperor". His critique of the ugliness of modern societies deserves more than a quick look
The Karl Popper Web - a link to the most intelligent and clear thinker of the 20th century; no one has done more to fight the intellectual fallacies of Marxism and its consequence, Totalitarism. His ideas had left a deep mark in my own even before I had read The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Poverty of Historicism
Centre for Intercultural Studes - Cassirer and History of the Cassirer family - although as time passed by I forfeited neo-Kantian conceptions (slowly but surely), Cassirer is still a milestone in my life due to his conception of Man is "symbolic animal", where his thoughts on religion have special importance for me. Considering the scope of his work, factual misinformation here and there are of minor relevance and it is always easier to update them than trying to erect a philosophical system like Cassirer's in his Philosohpy of Symbolic Forms. And I would suggest strongly that the abridged version of this work, An Essay on Man, should be mandatory reading to all freshers in Humanities
Biography of Mircea Eliade - besides his specific work on shamanism and yoga (which still seems valid to me, for several reasons), two spurious ways of discrediting his work are current: because of his Rightist views and because of his frequent generalizations. But I believe that, together with Cassirer, he has quite a lot to tell in the History of Religions field whenever we want to see the whole forest and not just the trees
Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America and Fundación Xavier Zubiri - no other name occurs to me other than that of Xavier Zubiri for a critique of classical metaphysics - while reconsidering the autonomy or pre-existence of the object regardless of the knowing subject, Zubiri made what was humanly possible to discredit the Kantian fallacy than an object can be identified with its knowing subject, or that it can only exist from the latter's point of view. It is a pity that he is so little known (reminds one of what happened to Schopenhauer due to the sabotage of the the-available Hegelians)
Other important authors throughout my life have been Norman Cohn, Karl Löwith and Henri-Irenée Marrou, about whom so far there are no specific Web sites. A pity, really
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