La politización en las lecturas canónicas: Miguel Antonio Caro, lector de Jorge Isaacs
2008; Pontifical Xavierian University; Volume: 12; Issue: 25 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2248-6992
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Studies in Latin America
ResumoThe article herein shows some conceptual features of Miguel Antonio Caro’s intellectual project and its intrinsic strengths. Furthermore, it details the type of politicization which Caro imposed on some of the work of his contemporaries politicization which, in turn, was later imposed on him-self by contemporary historiography. More to the point, I evidence how Caro, when asserting that a particular text by Jorge Isaacs (The native tribes of the Magdalena basin) was scientific, immediately proceeded to politicize Isaac’s work, among other things, because he (Caro) did not have the relevant arguments needed to confront Isaacs’ text in its own terms and framework. Thus, in order to dismiss Isaacs’ objections raised against the government of Nunez, Caro places the aforementioned work by the author of Maria, among the texts that threatened social order by presenting it as part and parcel of positivism, empiricism, liberalism, and all other intellectual efforts based on a damaging sensualism.
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