Author: Arthur Preston WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Latin America and the Enlightenment
Author: Arthur Preston WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Latin America and the Enlightenment
Author: Arthur Preston WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Latin America and Enlightenment
Author: Arthur Preston WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Measuring the New World
Author: Neil SafierPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226733564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission’s participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a “sacred fire” passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America.By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, Measuring the New World examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, as well as specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author.
The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment
Author: Elizabeth Franklin LewisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351718878
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 913
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to the Hispanic Enlightenment is an interdisciplinary volume that brings together an international team of contributors to provide a unique transnational overview of the Hispanic Enlightenment, integrating both Spain and Latin America. Challenging the usual conceptions of the Enlightenment in Spain and Latin America as mere stepsisters to Enlightenments in other countries, the Companion explores the existence of a distinctive Hispanic Enlightenment. The interdisciplinary approach makes it an invaluable resource for students of Hispanic studies and researchers unfamiliar with the Hispanic Enlightenment, introducing them to the varied aspects of this rich cultural period including the literature, visual art, and social and cultural history.
Latin America and the Enlightenment
Author: Arthur Preston WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Ibero-American Enlightenment
Author: Alfred Owen AldridgePublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Latin America and the Enlightenment
Author: Arthur P. WhitakerLatin America and the Enlightenment
Author: Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America
Author: Adam SharmanPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030370194
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
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 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.