Amistad y Progreso: Los Congresos Científicos Pan-Americanos, 1898-1916

Los Congresos Científicos Pan-Americanos abrieron una nueva época de intercambio científico no solamente dentro de los pa?ses de América Latina sino entre estos y los Estados Unidos. Figuras importantes como Albert. A. Michelson, ganador del Premio Nobel en 1907, regularmente atendieron estas conferencias, así ayudando a difundir los últimos avances científicos en la región. Por medio de estos congresos, el libro analiza el emergente desarrollo de la ciencia local, las ideas difundidas a la región, al igual que los factores que afectaron la adopción de estas ideas

Nihilism Inc.: Environmental Destruction and the Metaphysics of Sustainability

The spectre of global environmental destruction is before us, the legacy of the expansion and domination of the world by European civilization. Not even the threat to the continued existence of humanity is enough to move the members of this civilization to alter its trajectory. And Marxism, which had held out the possibility of creating a new social order, has been swept from the historical stage by the failure of Eastern European communism. Nihilism Inc. is an attempt to overcome this crisis. Examining the relationship between metaphysical assumptions, ideas, social practices, institutions and economic processes in the formation and evolution of European civilization, it offers a genealogy of its current nihilism. The theory and practice of Marxism are analysed to show why the Soviet Union proved even more environmentally destructive and even less responsive to the environmental crisis than the West. These analyses reveal the need for a radical cultural transformation, a transformation which can only be effected on the foundation of a new metaphysics. The final part of this work offers the required metaphysics, clearing the way for the creation of an environmentally sustainable civilization

The scientific imagination

History of Scienc

Beyond European Civilization: Marxism, Process Philosophy, and the Environment

Beyond European Civilization is the sequel to Nihilism Incorporated, a work in which I described how European civilization came to embody a nihilistic world-orientation and to conquer the world, and how, through the expansion of capitalism, it continues to impose its environmentally destructive culture on the rest of humanity. Through a critical analysis of the failure of Marxism to overcome the defects of European culture, Beyond European Civilization elaborates the foundations for a culture to transcend European civilization