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Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity

Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity

Sharman, Adam

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Literary CriticismGeneral Latin American HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 3030370216
ISBN13: 9783030370213
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 14 2021
Pages: 263
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book is about Enlightenment culture in Spanish America before Independence--in short, there where, according to Hegel, one would least expect to find it. It explores the Enlightenment in texts from five cultural fields: science, history, the periodical press, law, and literature. Texts include the journals of the geodesic expedition to Quito, philosophical histories of the Americas, a year's work from the Mercurio Peruano, the writings of Mariano Moreno, and Lizardi's El periquillo sarniento. Each chapter takes one field, one body of writing, and one key question: Is modern science universal? Can one disavow the discourse of progress? What is a Catholic Enlightenment? Are Enlightenment reason and sovereignty monological? Must the individual be the normative subject of modernity? The book's premise is that the above texts not only speak to the contradictions of a doubtless marginalised colonial American Ilustración but illuminate the constitutive aporias ofthe so-called modern project itself.

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