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What is the value of self-interest? The article critically reviews past and current justifications for the theoretical use of the behavioral assumption of self-interest, explanatory, normative, representional and critical, focusing on the critical function. This latter emerges from an incursion into the modern history of ideas and may be shown still to fertilize a number of contemporary economic approaches. (Rev Econ Polit/DÜI)

"This book is an enquiry into memory in the Western world. Specifically, memory is the framework of culture, because it links the present to the past--or tradition--and projects it into the future. For this reason, any work focusing on memory involves a double challenge: (1) to reveal the origin of concepts and (2) to glimpse the course of thoughts. This is the case of the present volume, in which the authors make several tastings of Europe's intellectual heritage, by taking into account both the Greek origin of this legacy and its relevance for understanding the European philosophical heritage. In particular, these papers focus on the Aristotelian tradition, the true keystone of Europe, and on other currents of thought that have also played an essential role in the intellectual evolution of the Old Continent. In the latter field, there are contributions, for instance, on philosophical-religious traditions such as Orphism or on certain fundamental aspects of Neoplatonism both in the Classical World and in Christian authors. The volume concludes with various works on the survival of these intellectual trends from the Renaissance to the present day. Consequently, this work offers the opportunity to delve deeper into some of the aspects that define Western civilisation, observed both from its origin and its evolution over the centuries. The volume contains papers in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and English."--

A crítica de pressupostos como pressuposto da crítica : em defesa da "crítica ontológica" -- Sobre a relação entre ética, moral e política : contra a economia do bem-estar social -- Do utilitarismo ao senianismo : uma recapitulação crítica da versão conservadora da ocorrência de mazelas sociais -- A economia diante do horror econômico

Este livro é uma reflexão sobre o sentido da identidade com base em obras escolhidas de alguns dos autores que marcaram o pensamento social do Brasil e do México no século XX. O exame das idéias de brasilidade e de hispanidade no plano do discurso serviu como alavanca para compreender as significações que estão na base do que é percebido pela sociedade como um afastamento entre o Brasil e as nações hispano-americanas. Tais significações colocam em xeque o próprio conceito de América Latina como designativo geral e homogeneizante do espaço geográfico e das sociedades resultantes da colonização ibérica