*LATIN American philosophy, *INTELLECTUALS, *INTELLECTUALS -- Political activity, *NINETEENTH century, *HISTORY, *INTELLECTUAL life, VENEZUELAN social conditions
Abstract
Towards the end of the colonial period the east coasts of the General Captaincy of Venezuela were the setting of an intense movement of ideas, papers and people, as well as of conspiracies and confrontments (both armed and unarmed). In that context emerged the figure of Francisco Isnardi, who would soon be imprisoned for alleged intentions to conspire. The study of this case of treason, especially of the suspect's library, which was confiscated, allows us to present a set of problems regarding the diffusion of enlightened values in Tierra Firme during that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
*INTELLECTUALS, *DEMOCRACY, *NARRATION, *MODERNITY, *HISTORY, *NINETEENTH century, *INTELLECTUAL life, LATIN American social conditions
Abstract
The present paper studies narratives strategies used by a fair part of Latin-American intellectuals in order to defy the rapid changes taking place in urban society in the late nineteenth century. Furthermore, the paper explores the rhetoric models men of letters used to qualify the limits of the notion of democracy, with the hope that these discursive interventions would limit the access to places of influence where new social actors struggled to enter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published
2013
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