Deconstructing the Enlightenment in Spanish America: Margins of Modernity

Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: How Not to Write the History of the Spanish American Enlightenment
	References
Chapter 2: Science: Three Degrees of Modernity: The 1735 Franco-Hispanic Expedition to Quito and the Question of Universal Science
	Introduction
	Experience, Experiment, Expedition
	The True Rules: The Place of Theory in Modern Science
	Note on the European Tradition
	Discourse on Method: Error and Redemption
	Universal Laws, National Prejudices
	Conclusion: A Tangential Modernity
	References
Chapter 3: History: Conjectures on Commerce and the “Stages of Civilisation”: Philosophical Histories of America
	Introduction
	De Pauw’s Recherches philosophiques sur les Américains: A Monstrous Litany
	Montesquieu’s De l’Esprit des lois: The Spirit of Commerce
	Eighteenth-century Enlightenment Philosophy
	Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes: Commerce Above All Else
	Robertson’s The History of America: The Line Towards Civilisation
	In/On Stages
	Clavijero’s Historia Antigua de México: Our Animals Are Under No Obligation To Be Like Your Animals
	The End of History
	Conclusion: The Not-step of Civilisation
	References
Chapter 4: Periodical Press: Faith and Knowledge in the Mercurio Peruano
	Introduction: A Literary Public Sphere
	Faith and Knowledge: Versions of the Enlightenment
		Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophical Enlightenment
		Ulrich Lehner’s Catholic Enlightenment
		Jacques Derrida on Faith and Knowledge
	The Mercurio Peruano and Charity
	The Historiography of Abject Objects
	Anatomy of Enlightenment
		Public Health
		Commerce
		Mining
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Law: Prologue to Revolution: Mariano Moreno Translates Rousseau
	Introduction
	Constitutional Crisis in the Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres
	The Iberian Scholastics: Transferring Sovereignty
	Who or What Is el pueblo?: Translating Rousseau
	Where, the People? Between Natural Law and Revolution: The Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres, August–October 1810
	“The Provinces”: Form and force de loi
	Epilogue: Philosophy and Politics Against Each Other
	References
Chapter 6: Literature: The Idle Noble and the Noble Citizen: El periquillo sarniento and the Invention of the Mexican Individual
	Introduction
	Lizardi and the “Mexican Enlightenment”
	The Impression of Philosophy: The Empirical Turn
	The Invention of the (Hispanic) Individual
	The Making of the Noble Citizen: I
	The Making of the Noble Citizen: II: Chinese, Blacks, Slaves, and the Vile Trades
	Reform Is Already a Philosophy
	Conclusion Concerning a Catholic Enlightenment
	References
Chapter 7: Conclusion
	References
Index