La ruina de la civilización antigua

by Guglielmo Ferrero, José Manuel Fajardo (Traductor)

¿Cómo puede la historia del siglo ayudar a los lectores del siglo a comprender la realidad en la que viven y a enfrentarse a los peligros que oculta? Este lúcido análisis, publicado originalmente en , en el que el gran historiador e intelectual italiano Guglielmo Ferrero daba cuenta de las terribles cuestiones que se planteaban entonces en Europa, ha conservado, casi un siglo después, toda su claridad y su vigencia. Un imprescindible clásico de ayer sobre el mundo de hoy. III XXI 1926
En La ruina de la civilización antigua, publicado poco después de la Primera Guerra Mundial, Guglielmo Ferre ro invita a los lectores a reflexionar sobre la historia con temporánea mediante una relectura en profundidad de la antigua Roma en el momento de su caída. Ferrero analiza así los mecanismos gubernamentales y culturales que han actuado en la larga historia de la política occidental, que es sobre todo la de la civilización europea. Este uso de la Historia como linterna que ilumina el tiempo presente no ha perdido ni un ápice de actualidad, y releer a Ferrero hoy, en mitad de la profunda crisis que atravesamos, es escuchar a un europeo convencido, seguro de que Europa se salvaría o perecería del todo y que, en el punto de inflexión entre estos dos futuros posibles, la cuestión de la forma de los regímenes políticos y su sinceridad respecto a los principios europeos sería una cuestión medular.

Genres: History

164 pages, Paperback

First published March 3, 2010

About the author

Guglielmo Ferrero was an Italian historian, journalist and novelist, author of the Greatness and Decline of Rome (6 vols., 1903–1908).

Born in Portici, near Naples, Ferrero studied law in Pisa, Bologna and Turin. Soon afterward he married Gina Lombroso, a daughter of Cesare Lombroso, the criminologist and psychiatrist with whom he wrote Criminal Woman, the Prostitute and the Normal Woman. In 1891-1894 Ferrero traveled extensively in Europe and in 1897 wrote The Young Europe. After studying the history of Rome Ferrero turned to political essays and novels (Between Two Worlds in 1913, Speeches to the Deaf in 1925 and The Two Truths in 1933-1939). When the fascist reign of Black Shirts forced liberal intellectuals to leave Italy in 1925, Ferrero refused and was placed under house arrest. In 1929 Ferrero accepted a professorship at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. His last works however (Adventure; The Reconstruction of Europe; Power; and The Two French Revolutions) were dedicated to the French Revolution and Napoleon.

Ferrero was invited to the White House by Theodore Roosevelt in 1908. He gave lectures in the northeast US which were collected and published in 1909 as Characters and Events of Roman History. Additionally, Roosevelt read The Greatness and Decline of Rome.

He died in 1942 at Mont-Pelerin-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.





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Reviews

[Johan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this book! Food for thought still today, even more then ever today.

[Adrienne · Rating 4 out of 5]

A theory worth reading of the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire, essentially due to the loss of the legitimacy of the empire’s power structure (who validates the new emperor?) and the upheaval that was Christianity. This book was written in 1920 and the author offers a comparison with the ending world of the European monarchies which his century just witnessed with the First World War. Some great food for thought 100 years later in what is once again an uncertain world...

[Xolrax · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.4

[Melodeamon]

One of the best History book ever written
Absolute masterpiece 131 pages only lmao