Pensando la hispanidad. Estrategias para el estudio crítico de la historia del pensamiento filosófico-político hispánico

En este artículo se exponen características generales de la forma como habitualmente se narra la historia del pensamiento filosófico-político de la hispanidad, desentrañando y analizando sus presupuestos conceptuales y metodológicos básicos desde una perspectiva crítica y meta-teórica. A partir de este examen crítico se argumenta cómo las tradiciones de pensamiento filosófico-político de origen judío, musulmán o converso deben ser pensadas como componentes determinantes de la tradición del pensamiento hispánico, indispensables a su vez para definir el concepto mismo de hispanidad o de hispanidades. Con este propósito, se reseña el amplio debate existente en España y en Hispanoamérica desde hace más de un siglo en torno a los criterios que permiten definir la existencia de una filosofía hispánica, debido a que este debate refleja sintomáticamente el problema general de definir la identidad de lo hispánico y su tradición histórica.-----This article presents general features of the usual way of telling the history of the philosophical and political thought on Hispanicity, by deciphering and analyzing its basic conceptual and methodological assumptions from a critical and metacritical approach. This critical examination claims how the political and philosophical thought traditions of Jewish, Muslim, or converse origin should be examined as factors that determined the Hispanic thought tradition, in turn mandatory to define the Hispanicity or Hispanicities concept itself. Keeping this purpose in mind, a review is provided on the debate that has been ongoing in Spain and Hispanic America for more than a century about the criteria that allow defining the existence of a Hispanic philosophy, since such debate reflects symptomatically the overall issue of defining the Hispanic identity and its historical tradition.

cultural field of the seventeenth century in Spain and New Granada

The article aims to make visible some nuances of the 17TH century in Spain and the New Granada with emphasis on articulations and tensions that made up this cultural and social space through the analysis of the letrados and its position in the Hispanic cultural field of the 16th and 17TH centuries. This article also discusses the traditional thesis about the cultural isolation and obscurantism in the American colonies before the eighteenth century through the analysis of the circulation of books and knowledge between mainland Spain and its colonies, and the heterogeneous character of the lawyers that affect the symbolic monopoly of the Catholic Church.