Status Quaestionis

Se presentan los enfoques y crítica del encuentro de la teología y las modernas neurociencias, y se insiste en la necesidad de un diálogo auténtico entre la revelación en teología y lo que las neurociencias revelan en su propio discurso. El trabajo aporta una clave de interpretación,  la revelación se da en la autonomía del mundo y afecta lo constitutivo de la teología, hasta el punto de exigir un giro en la pregunta por la fuente de la revelación: pasar de un modelo de trascendencia-inmanencia, a un modelo de monismo relativo, donde la red ne ural humana se hace fuente constitutiva de la Palabra de Dios.

This article presents and discusses the state of the art of the study of play translation,including reader-oriented and performance-oriented translation. Taking over from a previous article that dealt with the same field’s history until the early 2000s, it covers the last decade, a period of remarkable development. In discussing this development, it follows an overall chronological organisation, which has been combined with thematic arrangement for ease of reading. Both articles together provide a comprehensive overview of what was once a neglected field but is not so anymore.

This essay aims at analyzing the genealogical connection between modernism and the bourgeois novel of the XIX century. Modernism portrays itself traditionally in contrast with the bourgeois conservative tradition of its recent past: nevertheless, at the formal level, modernist innovations must be seen as a way to radicalize deep sociological contradictions of the bourgeois cultural system, which was dissolving across XIX and XX Century. From this perspective, some passages from two modernist masterpieces, Kafka’s Das Urteil (1912) and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1926), are here compared with late XIX novel, in order to conceptualize modernist form as way to react dialectically to a contradictory tradition with artistic innovation. Finally a basic hypothesis is put forward: the ultimate meaning of this modernist inner negotiation must be seen in the passage between late XIX century culture and the new XX mass culture; this transformation lies massively the way literature portrait...

In one of his Treatises on Government , John Locke stated that «every Man has a Property in his own Person». The complex articulation of this apparently matter-of-fact argument has haunted the Western cultural imaginary, and has been transformed into numerous literary texts and figures. Ever since Mary Shelley started investigating an ante-litteram Foucauldian «unfolding» of life, the issues related to the «immortalization of the flesh and the amortization of the body» have become growingly relevant. In this paper, I shall aim at investigating the literary versions of the biopolitics of owning and disowning bodies, of ageing and dying offered by Kazuo Ishiguro, namely in his celebrated Never Let Me Go , and by Hanif Kureishi, who dedicated his novella “The Body” to an interrogation of the marketable value of human bodies and body parts.