Introduction to the Spanish Universalist School : Enlightened Culture and Education Versus Politics

Introduction to the Spanish Universalist School presents the most significant authors, works, and concepts of a distinctive humanistic and scientific intellectual community, one mostly comprised of ex-Jesuits exiled to Italy at the end of the eighteenth century. The study of this corner of the Hispanic Enlightenment, marked especially by the work of Juan Andrés, Lorenzo Hervás, and Antonio Eximeno, offers contributions to the history of European sciences and letters, to the history of ideas, and to the concepts of universality and globalization. Half Title 2 Series Information 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Preface 8 Part 1 The Spanish Universalist School of the xviii Century 10 Chapter 1 The Universalist Enlightenment 12 Chapter 2 Universalism and Intercontinentalism: America–Europe–Asia 25 Chapter 3 Human Sciences and Empiricism, Comparistics and Aesthetics 31 Part 2 Universalist Enlightenment and Education 38 Chapter 4 Prospectus Philosophiae Universae: An Intellectual and Academic Program 40 Chapter 5 The Idea of ‘Progress’ according to Juan Andrés: Human Emancipation through Science and Culture 52 Chapter 6 Lorenzo Hervás and the “Formative Program” of Historia de la vida del hombre 73 Chapter 7 Humanism and Humanitarianism: The Language of the Deaf 92 Part 3 Universalist Enlightenment and Globalization 102 Chapter 8 Astronomy, Geography, Galleons and Intercontinentalism 104 Chapter 9 Antiquarianism, Philology and Rhetoric; Science, Musicology and Aesthetics: The Illustrated Plurality 116 Appendix I Texts by and about Juan Andrés, Lorenzo Hervás and Antonio Eximeno 134 i Juan Andrés 134 ii Lorenzo Hervás 140 iii Antonio Eximeno 145 Appendix II Table of Universalist Authors and Subjects 160 Thematic Bibliography 160 Precursors 164 Related Authors 164 Appendix III Thematic Bibliography of the Universalist School 166 i Philosophy/Epistemology 166 ii Historiography 167 iii Linguistics 170 iv Theory of Art and Literature/Criticism/Antiquarian 171 v Travel Literature 173 vi Bibliography/Bibliothecography 174 vii Pedagogy: School of the Deaf 175 viii Musicology/Arts 176 ix Natural History/Botany 177 x Physics/Astronomy/Meteorology 179 xi American 181 xii Mexican 182 xiii Philippino 183 xiv Geography 183 Bibliography 184 Primary Sources 184 Secondary Sources 189 The Spanish Universalist School on the Internet 195 Index 197 "Introduction to the Spanish Universalist School offers a presentation of the main concepts, works and authors of the Spanish Universalist School, formed mostly by ex-Jesuits exiled to Italy at the end of the 18th century. The Universalist School is a Hispanic Enlightenment of great singularity, one that is not political but humanistic and scientific, with a cultural and educational orientation. In their different disciplinary fields, Juan Andrés, Lorenzo Hervás and Antonio Eximeno are the most relevant universalists of a School, whose recent reconstruction has entailed an important contribution to the History of European Sciences and Letters, as well as to the History of Ideas and to the ideas of Universality and Globalization"-- Provided by publisher