Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity by Ada

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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.

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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. Drawing on the work of Derrida, but also on both historical and philosophical accounts of the various Enlightenments, this incisive book will be of interest to students of Spanish America and scholars in the fields of postcolonialism and the Enlightenment.

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"With his customary rigorous scholarship and theoretical awareness, Adam Sharman has produced a challenging and thought-provoking reassessment of Spanish America's colonial Enlightenment. This is a timely and engaging intervention - an essential re-reading of traditional notions of the Spanish American experience." - Prof. Philip Swanson , Hughes Professor of Spanish, University of Sheffield "This book's original conclusions open up a new perspective on the Spanish American Enlightenment. Sharman demonstrates a rounded approach to an overlooked subject, exploring with equal ease and eloquence geodesic findings and legal intricacies. It is a memorable contribution to the field." - Dr. Victoria Carpenter , Head of Research Development, University of Bedfordshire This book is about Enlightenment culture in Spanish America before Independence--there where, according to Hegel, one would least expect to find it. It explores texts from five cultural fields (science, history, the periodical press, law, and literature), including 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 above texts, the book contends, illuminate not only the contradictions of a marginalised colonial American Ilustraci

Author Biography

Adam Sharman is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Nottingham, UK. His books include Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature, Otherwise Engaged: After Hegel and the Philosophy of History, and the co-edited 1812 Echoes: The Cadiz Constitution in Hispanic History, Culture and Politics.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: How Not to Write the History of the Spanish American Enlightenment.- 2. Science: Three Degrees of Modernity: The 1735 Franco-Hispanic Expedition to Quito and the question of universal science.- 3. History: Conjectures on Commerce and the "Stages of Civilisation": Philosophical Histories of America.- 4. Periodical Press: Faith and Knowledge in the Mercurio Peruano.- 5. Law: Prologue to Revolution: Mariano Moreno Translates Rousseau.- 6. Literature: The Idle Noble and the Noble Citizen: El periquillo sarniento and the Invention of the Mexican Individual.- 7. Conclusion.    

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Examines material from five different cultural fields, ranging from science through to literature Outlines the philosophical ideas that underpin the Spanish American Enlightenment with theoretical clarity and historical nuance to debates on Latin America and modernity Provides a comparative dimensions, eschewing na

Details ISBN3030370186 Author Adam Sharman Pages 263 Year 2020 ISBN-10 3030370186 ISBN-13 9783030370183 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2020-02-14 Short Title Deconstructing Enlightenment in Spanish America Language English Subtitle Margins of Modernity DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-37019-0 DEWEY 980 UK Release Date 2020-02-14 Edition 1st Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Illustrations 2 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 263 p. 2 illus. Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition Description 1st ed. 2020 Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG Alternative 9783030370213 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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