Ideological Hesitancy in Spain 1700-1750
Ivy L. McClelland
Abstract
This book examines several aspects of Spain's polemical Age of Reason, in particular the uncertain shifts in scientific ideas, the developing confusion of philosophical attitudes, the controversial movements in literary theories, the popular reactions to artistic practices, and the disturbed and disturbing variations in traditional beliefs and social attitudes. It takes as its model what it refers to as the middle-way enlightened man or ‘ilustrado’, who accepted much of the teachings of the new science and rationalist thinking, but remained skeptical of their accuracy and efficacy in addressin ... More
Keywords: Spain, Age of Reason, scientific ideas, philosophical attitudes, literary theories, artistic practices, traditional beliefs, social attitudes, ilustrado, rationalist thinking
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1991 | Print ISBN-13: 9780853230977 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 | DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846317323 |
