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Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain - Fringe Discourses (Hardcover)
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Modernity and Epistemology in Nineteenth-Century Spain - Fringe Discourses (Hardcover)
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The fraught tension between science and religion has loomed large
in scholarship about the nineteenth century in Spain, especially
given the prominence of the Catholic Church and the discoveries
made by Wallace and Darwin. The struggle for epistemological
superiority between these two discourses (science and religion) has
served to overshadow certain corners of the cultural landscape
that, though prominent sites of intellectual exploration in their
day, have received comparatively less scholarly attention until
recently. Fringe Discourses brings together a group of essays that
seeks to restore a sense of the epistemological richness of
nineteenth-century Spain. By exploring the relationship between
epistemology, modernity, and subjectivity, these essays recover
significant efforts by Spanish authors and intellectuals to explain
human nature and their world, which seemed to be changing so
radically before their eyes. In doing so the essays also reveal
just how elastic the relationship was between science and
pseudoscience, genius and quackery. Offering a veritable
Wunderkammer, the authors collected here train their sights both on
curious fields of study (from pogonolgy, the science of beards, to
Spiritualism) and curiouser people (from a government spy on
undercover assignment in Morocco dressed as a Moorish prince to a
hypnotic huckster who dupes the queen regent). With other authors
focusing on science fiction dystopias, mystical journeys, and
anatomical symbology, Fringe Discourses reveals the Spanish
nineteenth century for the intellectual Wild West it was.
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