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Between the Darkness of Barbarism and the Light of Civilization: British Images of the Finn in the Late Eighteenth Century

2014

This article aims to show that it was the British travellers (Coxe, Tooke, Clarke,et al.) to Finland in the late eighteenth century who discovered Finland for theBritish reading public. As they distinguished the Finns as a separate ‘race’ fromthe Russians, the Swedes, and the Lapps, they contributed to the proto-racialistimage of them that would become popular in the nineteenth century. BecauseSweden had become an important maritime trading partner (in iron ore, tar, andtimber) to the British, its eastern part, Finland, also became an interesting countryto visit en route from Stockholm to Saint Petersburg (or from Saint Petersburgto Stockholm). The travellers were astonished to realize that…

A Japanese Approach to Stages of Capitalist Development. What Comes Next?

2022

Derechos y deberes. El horizonte de la responsabilidad

2013

El artículo recorre aquellos acontecimientos y textos del siglo XX más reveladores a la hora de abordar la relación entre derechos y deberes, proponiendo una lectura renovada de la noción de responsabilidad humana. La reflexión sobre las carencias del individualismo y del estatalismo, latentes en la cultura jurídicopolítica contemporánea, no pretende relativizar el papel de los derechos sino tratar de reforzarlo a través de un discurso permeable a otras formulaciones de las exigencias de justicia y a otras concepciones del mundo, con el objetivo de fortalecer la conciencia cívica, el tejido social relacional, la asunción responsable de las propias obligaciones y una idea de universalidad má…

Recensione a Maria Giovanna Sandri, Trattati greci su barbarismo e solecismo, Berlin-Boston, De Gruyter 2020. Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Cl…

2022

Recensione del volume di Maria Giovanna Sandri, che raccoglie i superstiti trattati greci su barbarismo e solecismo.