El historiador francés Robert Muchembled (n. 1944) ha publicado numerosos trabajos sobre temas difíciles y espinosos como el malestar social, la criminalidad y el sexo en la trayectoria de la cultura europea desde fines del Medioevo hasta nuestros días.

Descartes’ and Montaigne’s solitudes are usually compared. Nevertheless, the second one is the solitude of an I that discovers itself as a work of plurality and harmony with nature; and the first one, conversely, is a demarcation of an individuality influenced by an childhood marked by confinement, caused by both a respiratory disease and a precocious approach to books and the early discovery of the “voice of reason”. According to the Discourse on the Method—written in response to The Essays—, the equality of “reason” in every human, the diversity of authors, teachers and people as a sign of a bad use of intelligence, the divine origin of reason, and the possession of innate ideas conflude to justify the search of a total science within the individual mind. Clinging to the mathematical method, Descartes convinces himself that he does not need either the senses or the othe...

El historiador francés Robert Muchembled (n. 1944) ha publicado numerosos trabajos sobre temas difíciles y espinosos como el malestar social, la criminalidad y el sexo en la trayectoria de la cultura europea desde fines del Medioevo hasta nuestros días.

The recent experience of quarantine, due to a still ongoing pandemic, which has deprived us for months of a common space and the coincidence with the other. This deprivation has been necessary by sanitary reasons. Nevertheless it has been serious from the point of view of an idea of the human which is not an accidental being but also it is constitutively corporeal and social. Indeed, the representation of the body and the social dimensión as inherent variables to the person allow us to judge better the consequences of the damage which face the share areas, especially Within the cities, in Latin America and even more in Peru. The public space is not an opposed area to the self, but it even explains its identity and freedom. The physical state of the inhabited place adjusts the way in which humans live. The walk of a city is not indifferent to whom we are, which is only fully within a lif...

The recent experience of quarantine, due to a still ongoing pandemic, which has deprived us for months of a common space and the coincidence with the other. This deprivation has been necessary by sanitary reasons. Nevertheless it has been serious from the point of view of an idea of the human which is not an accidental being but also it is constitutively corporeal and social. Indeed, the representation of the body and the social dimensión as inherent variables to the person allow us to judge better the consequences of the damage which face the share areas, especially Within the cities, in Latin America and even more in Peru. The public space is not an opposed area to the self, but it even explains its identity and freedom. The physical state of the inhabited place adjusts the way in which humans live. The walk of a city is not indifferent to whom we are, which is only fully within a lif...