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La categoría de sujeto se representa, usualmente, a través de tres instancias esenciales al texto literario: la instancia autoral, la instancia narrativa y la de los personajes. La metaficción es un modo de escritura a la vez creativa y crítica, que evidencia los problemas relativos a los modos de representación de una consciencia subjetiva a través del lenguaje literario. Mi objetivo en este trabajo es analizar las estrategias a través de las cuales la metaficción problematiza la noción de sujeto en cada una de las tres instancias mencionadas antes. Para tal fin, examino Abbadón el exterminador de Ernesto Sabato, Boquitas pintadas de Manuel Puig y Farabeuf de Salvador Elizondo. 

Psychological treatments for personality disorders have not yet reached a level of protocol as specific as to describe interventions for each session. This could be due, among other factors, to the heterogeneity of cases that make it difficult to design a protocol. Treatments are then based on case conceptualizations supported by theories that determine the objectives and interventions performed. The difficulty to conceptualize from a particular model may be a reason why psychotherapists find problems to make the most appropriate treatment. Addressing this problem, we have designed a set of ‘Professional schematic-guides’ to improve the clinical practice. These one-page-guides were created to have them in front of you during the sessions, and help to conceptualize cases and easily guide the interventions from the model of Young, Klosko y Wheishar (2003). This article describes the process of building guidelines.

This essay analyses the positions which are related to the quantitative and qualitative research models in the social disciplines; it examines the universality and invariance of scientific laws; and it presents the inadequacy of the conceptions of logical positivism and of classical epistemology, as well as the new concepts and two of the models which arose there from. Then, based on this it evaluates the epistemic status of research findings from both models, the scientific status of the disciplines and their theories and the rationality of the agreements reached over research conclusions: the limitations of scientific laws show the plausibility of quantitative research, which can be associated with the epistemic values of truth, inter-subjectivity and susceptibility of replication, and its conclusions can be considered as genuine knowledge, though not those of qualitative research. But these philosophical notions leave open the controversy over the appropriate conceptions to explore the social phenomena.    

The field of popular culture has privileged a technical view of its objects in the sense that Aristotle gave to the term téchne. This approach has prevailed until today in the form of an economic and technological determinism that emphasizes the social structure in front of cultural activity. It is a rationalist presupposition which it is shared by the cultural and sociological theories dominant in the area: critical theory, political economy analysis and, to some extent, cultural studies. This study examines the philosophical assumptions of these current theories in order to understand how they incorporate the same rational and extrinsic explanation which defined the criticism of Adorno and Horkheimer to mass culture at mid-twentieth century. This phenomenon of mass culture gave rise to Hannah Arendt's alternative reflection, coinciding with the period in which the Frankfurt's theorists settled the dominant view of contemporary culture. In our view, Arendt offers a non-rationalist and intrinsic perspective that allows an adequate understanding of the cultural and symbolical character of the objects that shape the field of popular culture.    

The contemporary social intervention is carried out in contexts characterized by an increasing complexity. Many people take part in this process, one of them, several professionals, who with their own knowledge produce a specialized comprehension about the social phenomena which their actions are aimed. It is necessary to make clear the epistemological approach supported by each professional, in order to make counterpoints and discursive rules which allow understanding their languages and dialoguing in order to face the social intervention with a more complex comprehension. This paper analyses this situation from discourse ethics, and suggests some requirements to the dialogue among different disciplines interested in this field.    

This article argues that Palacios proposes the essential elements for a systematical philosophical anthropology, under the influence of his time, mainly evolutionism and racism, but different while trying to give a wide perspective of racial mix as the result of cultural contamination by contact and the sociocultural mutation as a result. Raza Chilena is a book that contains a holistic hypothesis that link all forms of science, history, biology, sociology, anthropology and linguistics available in the 19th century Chile.    

Nowadays there are many practical-discursive signs of the need to adopt, in our historic context, a decisive epistemological turn towards interpretive-comprehensive approaches, more adequate to the new conditions of the possibility of knowledge as construction of sense. If we are in conditions to defend that actually a radical theoretical break has taken place that appears towards a new alliance -of enormous ethical and political implications- between nature, in one side, and society and culture, on the other, it is because the hermeneutic approach does not reveal itself as  a mere epistemological option, but as a new fundamental attitude that, with independence of the conceptual resources adopted, penetrates and articulates the whole existential fabric of the new being in the world.    

In 1904, at the initiative of a Galician immigrant named Gumersindo Busto Villanueva, born in Buenos Aires a cultural project which, although intended for University of Santiago de Compostela, the birthplace of his mentor, had a clear vocation to serve to commemorate the first centenary of the Independence of Argentina, his country of residence and adoption. This project resulted in the creation of a bibliographic and museum fund would aim to raise awareness in Galicia, and therefore in Spain, the American intellectual reality in all its variety and extension. In fact, the efforts of his mentor and networks woven in broad sectors of almost all countries of the continent, led to numerous collaborations from all sources to provide what should be the Library-Museum America1. The new institution was to be opened, according to the express wish of Gumersindo Busto and the Royal Order confirming its creation on 25 May 19102.

Abstract In this article is argued that the citizens, as well as the Nation-State, are a cultural construction. Being and feeling a citizen is not “natural”, but the result of a cultural process in the history of each one and in the collective of a society. The citizen is not born, it is formed. However, this construction involves the setting up of a whole speech from the legal and political, resulting in a series of social practices that go through the political and electoral field, and are spread through out the social network with a prism of practices and cultural behaviors which have their expression in the sphere of public life to the private living spaces. To fulfill this cultural and political project, the State designed in the first half of the nineteenth century a number of strategies and pedagogies, aimed at imposing a model of subjects enrolled in the ideology and symbolic language of modernity. A man who would be the support of the new national state that was intended to implement.  

During the seventeenth century successive kings of Castile and Aragon had lost part of the political and economic control of its American colonies. This circumstance favored economic and social flourishing of the colonies and the formation of local elites who had some influence in the colonial administration. The situation changed during the eighteenth century with the arrival of the Bourbons 1, which took measures to increase the political and economic control of the metropolis over overseas possessions. The colonial policy of Carlos III, inspired by the enlightened despotism, sought to create change "from above" without changing social relationships 2. The main reforms Bourbon is the creation of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (1776), which transformed Buenos Aires in the new seat of government. It was made up of the territories of the following countries today: Bolivia (Alto Peru), Paraguay, Uruguay (Eastern Band) and Argentina. One of the main objectives was to stop smuggling in favor of the commercial monopoly of the metropolis, since the distant port of Buenos Aires illegal trade 3 was produced, with the departure of Upper Peruvian precious metals and the entry of slaves and manufactured goods European ingleses4 and Portuguese introduced by May.