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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 Ilustracion but illuminate the constitutive
aporias of the 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.
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 Ilustracion but illuminate the constitutive
aporias of the 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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